Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
The stitch of a book is its words.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.
