Stephan Pastis Quotes
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.
My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren’t for her, I’d be happy.
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.
