You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.