Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.