In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.