Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.

The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

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.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.