Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
BILL WATTERSONNow if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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