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You can't live and write at the same time.

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.
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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
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I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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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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Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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