The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
I’m English, and ‘Doctor Who’ was this thing that I’ve been watching since I was three.
Make good art.
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing ‘I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,’ was C.S. Lewis and the ‘Narnia’ books.
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