Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

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.

Writing a book is an adventure.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

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

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

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.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.