Ben Katchor quotes

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. (Ben Katchor)

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

Ben Katchor

You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Ben Katchor

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

Ben Katchor

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

Ben Katchor

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Ben Katchor

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

Ben Katchor

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor

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Occupation: American Cartoonist
Born: November 19, 1951
Quotes count: 9

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