Anohni Quotes

There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

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 knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

I liked writing before I figured out I liked acting.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

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.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

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

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.