Top 22 John Allison Quotes

#1. I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

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#2. I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

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#3. My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

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#4. To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

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#5. My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

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#6. Wow. Listen. Just kiss both kinds of face. Maybe you'll enjoy them equally. That's fine. Let love rule. It's the nineties. Get used to it.

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#7. Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.

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#8. I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

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#9. Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

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#10. I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

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#11. Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.

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#12. As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.

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#13. As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

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#14. In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves.

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#15. A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL.

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#16. I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

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#17. Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

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#18. Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.

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#19. I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.

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#20. Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

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#21. Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.

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#22. So this is what love is.
It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

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