I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.
The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.
The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
