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Charles M. SchulzFamous Charles M. Schulz Quotes
As quoted in a profile at HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=8773
Context: It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
“I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous.”
National Cartoonist Society talk, 1994 http://web.archive.org/web/20070416184458/http://www.planetcartoonist.com/editorial/success_charlesschulz.shtml
Context: I never give my work to somebody else and say, "What do you think about that?" I just don't trust anybody. If I think it's funny, or if I think it's silly, I send it in anyway because I'm just trying to please myself. I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous. There's no way in the world you can anticipate what your reader is going to like or dislike.
“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today …… It's already tomorrow in Australia.”
Came from an online quiz falsely attributed to Schulz http://www.snopes.com/glurge/schulz.asp. However, in the 13 June 1980 Peanuts strip http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13, Marcie does say "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir. In fact, it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Misattributed
“I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.”
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
“The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.”
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
1992, as quoted by Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip This Modern World (21 February 2000) http://archive.salon.com/comics/tomo/2000/02/21/tomo/index.html
“A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.”
You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown! (1985) ISBN 0030056241
