Alison Bechdel Quotes
35 Alison Bechdel quotes:
"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."
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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times."
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"It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl."
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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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"I never really read superhero stuff as a kid."
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"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"And the idea that a story is true, that it actually happened, is endlessly compelling, I think, not just to me but to people in general."
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"Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white."
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"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
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"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
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