Quotes by Stephan Pastis

About Stephan Pastis:

Stephan Thomas Pastis is an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He has since begun writing children's chapter books, commencing the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made and the second and third Timmy Failure, which debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade Books.
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The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

Stephan Pastis

When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed l...

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You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long t...

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I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

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Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

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I do what makes me laugh.

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Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Stephan Pastis

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

Stephan Pastis

We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Stephan Pastis

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

Stephan Pastis

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

Stephan Pastis

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

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I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Stephan Pastis

A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least!

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A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

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I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

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For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

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Author Bio

  • NameStephan Pastis
  • DescriptionAmerican cartoonist
  • BornJanuary 16, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist