Top 72 Quotes by Harvey Pekar

Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.