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" Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. "

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" In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it. "

" 'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories. "

" My childhood is always going to limit me. "

" When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?' "

" I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. "

" Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? "

" My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. "

" I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? "

" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "

" I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. "

" When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!' "

" Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' "

" I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. "

" I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. "

" For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. "

" Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror. "

" Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. "

" My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable. "

" The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. "

" Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet. "

" I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. "

" We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. "

" I go to work the minute I open my eyes. "

" It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. "

" For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. "

" Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God. "

" I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. "

" The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead. "