John Allison Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By John Allison
I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times. — John Allison
I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next. — John Allison
Wow. Listen. Just kiss both kinds of face. Maybe you'll enjoy them equally. That's fine. Let love rule. It's the nineties. Get used to it. — John Allison
To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all. — John Allison
My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create. — John Allison
I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters. — John Allison
Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung. — John Allison
Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes. — John Allison
I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important. — John Allison
A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL. — John Allison
My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me. — John Allison
So this is what love is.
It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train. — John Allison
Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw. — John Allison
Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him. — John Allison
I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough! — John Allison
I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say. — John Allison
In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves. — John Allison
Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch. — John Allison
As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section. — John Allison
Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work. — John Allison
Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it. — John Allison