Kurt Busiek Quotes

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

I like creating images.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

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

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.