Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.