Carl Barks famous quotes

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
-- Carl Barks

#Writing #Years #Ducks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
-- Carl Barks

#Stories #Hell #Cynicism

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
-- Carl Barks

#Kids #Boys #Years

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
-- Carl Barks

#Book #Plot #Stories

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
-- Carl Barks

#Character #Differences #Faces

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory...

That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.