I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: … - Audrey Niffenegger

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Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years. . . That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Audrey Niffenegger

I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.

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He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

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I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

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. . . all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

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