I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. – R. L. Stine
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. – Rachel Weisz
I want the ‘Roots’ biopic to be animated – I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children. – Questlove
With comics, you’ve got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can’t make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn’t want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process. – Robert Crumb
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we’re drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author. – Sharon Kay Penman
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie – the key is in the incidental detail. – Shaun Tan
When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone’s head. – Swizz Beatz
If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it. – Sergio Aragones
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. – Ulysses S. Grant
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all. – Tony Jaa
I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. – Steven Wright
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. – Sarah Gavron
I’ve been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet. – Siegfried Woldhek
I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They’re drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they’re not tortured about it. – Spike Jonze
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. – Stephan Pastis
You know, it’s a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say ‘make that real.’ – Zack Snyder
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr.
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives. – Terry Brooks
There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country – drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers – but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders. – Sam Graves
It wasn’t until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. – Scott McCloud
Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn’t make it easier for me. – Stuart Immonen
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art – drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. – Shooter Jennings
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. – Sergio Aragones
I don’t use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear. – Siegfried Woldhek
I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspiration from characters like Annie Hall. – Sydney Wayser
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. – Sean Scully
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently. – Vik Muniz