A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.