John Allison Quotes

I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

Arrgh, my dad's here to pick me up. How can he be so insensitive to intrigue?

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.

In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves.

This is. The apotheosis. Of how she makes me feel.

Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

It is almost as though
something else is breathing

quite close by, invisibly.
The mystery of the names…
Albizzia. Gleditsia.

Aucuba japonica. And
I am listening, seeing. Seeing,
like someone twice alive.

So this is what love is.
It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.