Top 40 Quotes by Garry Trudeau

About Garry Trudeau

These are some quotes by American author Garry Trudeau Cartoonist, who was born on July 21, 1948.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Garry Trudeau

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

Garry Trudeau

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

Garry Trudeau

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Garry Trudeau

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

Garry Trudeau

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

Garry Trudeau

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

Garry Trudeau

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

Garry Trudeau

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Garry Trudeau

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Garry Trudeau

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