See also: Peanuts.

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• 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.
  • As quoted in a brief biography at HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=8773

• A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
  • In his book You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown! (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985; ISBN 0030056241)

• 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.
  • National Cartoonist Society talk, 1994 http://web.archive.org/web/20070416184458/http://www.planetcartoonist.com/editorial/success_charlesschulz.shtml

• If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books-- --but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
  • 1992, as quoted by Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip This Modern World (2000) http://archive.salon.com/comics/tomo/2000/02/21/tomo/index.html

• 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 (2000-02-13)

• The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.
  • ibid.