I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.