Liana Finck Quotes

born 1986 United States

Liana Finck (born 1986) is a cartoonist and author living in the US. She is the author of Passing for Human and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

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Random Liana Finck quote

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I so much think of the Torah as just a story and, like, a beautiful window into the way people thought thousands of years ago and the way people were thousands of years ago.

Interview with NPR (2022)

I’m alone a lot so I think I draw as a way to get my feelings out when I’m not with people.

Interview with Comics Beat (2018)

The shadow represents my strangeness and my creativity—my soul, which I used to run from in hopes of learning how to fit in.

Interview with Words Without Borders (2014)

I’m surprised that people relate to my stuff. I always thought of myself as not that relatable and maybe in person I’m not that relatable, but it warms my heart that people can relate.

Interview with Comics Beat (2018)

I don’t think having a hard time working on something means it was a bad project.

Interview (2018)

Humor is like a good eye for design, it comes when you have a strong sense of proportion along with the grace to step back and not take every little thing too seriously.

Interview (2018)

I’m not interested in details. I’m interested in the power structure and some strong feelings tend to be pretty universal.

Interview with Comics Beat (2018)

I've drawn compulsively all my life. I think Instagram is the format that comes closest to my natural tendency of drawing as a means to process things that bother me in real life.

Interview (2018)

I like having an audience. I don’t think I ever work when I don’t have an audience, which is one of my great failings.

Interview with Comics Beat (2018)

Attribution

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