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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
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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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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Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
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I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.
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I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
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I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
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I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
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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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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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She has given me a way out.
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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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