Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything. "
John Allison
Draw
Able
Anything
Related Quotes:
" I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say. "
John Allison
Seem
Much
Like
" I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times. "
John Allison
Feet
Think
Business
" Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes. "
John Allison
Work
Good
Opportunity
" Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work. "
John Allison
Better
More
Women
" As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section. "
John Allison
Library
Know
You
" Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch. "
John Allison
Writing
Work
She
" I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough! "
John Allison
Enough
People
Back
" My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create. "
John Allison
Art
Create
Money
" Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw. "
John Allison
Draw
Unpleasant
Thing
" I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters. "
John Allison
Out
Who
Characters
" I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next. "
John Allison
Lost
Go
Enthusiasm
" To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all. "
John Allison
Honest
Teen
Mystery
" I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important. "
John Allison
Important
People
College