Bill Watterson famous quotes

04-17-2025

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?
-- Bill Watterson

#Ems #Rockets #Ships
The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
-- Bill Watterson

#Express Yourself
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
-- Bill Watterson

#Friday #Cute Life #Sunday
Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
-- Bill Watterson

#Drawing #Challenges #Looks
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
-- Bill Watterson

#Historical #Burden #Terrible
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
-- Bill Watterson

#Sports #Team #People
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
-- Bill Watterson

#Truth Is
Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.
-- Bill Watterson

#Book #Made #Animation
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
-- Bill Watterson

#Running #Water #Looks
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
-- Bill Watterson

#Real #Comic #Animation
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson

#Inspirational #Funny #Laughter
I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
-- Bill Watterson

#Moving #Character #Expression
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
-- Bill Watterson

#Letting Go #Thinking #Play
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.
-- Bill Watterson

#New York #Reading #Character
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
-- Bill Watterson

#Change #Funny Life #Different
I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.
-- Bill Watterson

#Jobs #Writing #Character
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
-- Bill Watterson

#Mom #Children #Said
What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
-- Bill Watterson

#Writing #Character #Trying
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
-- Bill Watterson

#Life #Success #Beautiful
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.
-- Bill Watterson

#Voice #Different #Gone
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
-- Bill Watterson

#Funny #Time #Want
We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.
-- Bill Watterson

#Special #Connections #Fleeting
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.
-- Bill Watterson

#Writing #Two #Balance
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.
-- Bill Watterson

#Writing #Thinking #Ideas
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
-- Bill Watterson

#Bad Mood #Helping #Mood
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
-- Bill Watterson

#Inspirational #Life #Peace

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