Quotes by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way – I’m always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that’s pretty cool.

Children

Fun

Play

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Character

Men

Names

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Drawing

Reason

Writing

I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don’t act clinically OCD. I’m not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.

Drug

Energy

Kind

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there’s a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you’re talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That’s been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn’t before.

Humorous

Responsibility

Talking

I don’t know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I’m so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

Country

Mean

New York

I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that’s pretty cool.

Children

Fun

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Children

Father

Way

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Entrepreneurial

Promoting

Spirit

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Always Working

Beautiful

Character

Children

Comic

Country

Creativity

Criticism

Drawing

Drug

Energy

Entrepreneurial

Expression

Falling In Love

Father

Feminism

Found

Fun

Girl

Giving

Gone

Hair

Happens

Humorous

Ideas

Ifs

Kind

Littles

Looks

Mad

Magazines

Mainstream Culture

Mean

Men

Mother

Movie

Names

New York

Odds

People

Play

Promoting

Real

Reason

Responsibility

Sex

Spirit

Spokes

Stills

Talking

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Quotes by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way – I’m always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that’s pretty cool.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

I don’t know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I’m so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that’s pretty cool.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

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