Dave Sim Quotes

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David Victor Sim (born May 17, 1956, in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic-book writer and artist. Sim is best known as the creator of the 6,000-page graphic novel Cerebus the Aardvark (1977–2004).

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If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination.

It seems to me a core element of belief in God that a choice is a choice and it eliminates all other choices.

I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality.

I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying.

Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.

Dave Sim's Collected Letters Volume 2 (2007)

If you really want to do it nothing and no one is going to stop you, if you don't really want to do it, nothing and no one is going to help you.

Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)

Dave Sim's Collected Letters Volume 2 (2007)

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. (Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273)

Church & State volume I (1987)

Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane. (ibid, p. 28)

Following Cerebus (2004)

No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)

Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997)

Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)

Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997)

Get out of your own way. (p.28)

Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dave Sim (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.