Daniel Clowes

Born :14 April 1981

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Daniel Clowes born on 14th April 1981. As of today 7th May 2025 , we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 37 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I don't read much of anything online.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

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.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.