Carl Barks quotes
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“I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.”
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“I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.”
-- Carl BarksSource : Carl Barks, Donald D. Ault (2003). “Carl Barks: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.”
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“I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.”
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“There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.”
-- Carl Barks
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory...”
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