I’ve just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven’t thought, ‘Let me write some major opus here.’ Harvey Pekar Read Quote
Of course I don’t think I have it made by any means. I’m too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it’s not a good use of time and energy. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life – quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
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. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I’ve gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a while, I’ll take a look at something. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I don’t want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I’d rather settle for people thinking that I’m a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That’s one reason I’ve been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn’t been written about much. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
People writing about me have said that I’ve influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
