#or

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. ↗

— Carl Rakosi

#i #love #poet #social #social work

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. ↗

— Ted Rall

#consciously #directly #doing #i #influenced

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#association #because #cartoonists #confused #editorial

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches. ↗

— Ted Rall

#cartooning #experiencing #full-time #i #like

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good. ↗

— Ted Rall

#any #because #better #big #comics

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. ↗

— Ted Rall

#because #better #cartoonist #cartoonists #default

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. ↗

— Ted Rall

#go #good #graphic #had #i

Most people don't know how to tell stories. ↗

— Ted Rall

#know #most #people #stories #tell

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away. ↗

— Ted Rall

#analysis #away #direct #i #like

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. ↗

— Ted Rall

#blair #honorable #ruined #sources #tradition