Mike Mignola Quotes

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

I've always had a good handle on drawing children.

Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I have, a lot of doors have opened for me. I can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. Or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

I wish I could draw.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted.

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.

Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles, and I drew that sort of thing constantly.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.