Jeff Lemire Quotes

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine.

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.