Shigeru Miyamoto 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.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

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.

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

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.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

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

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

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.

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.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

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

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

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.

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

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

I really, really, really love writing comics.

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.