I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place where I hope that the book knows what it's doing because right now I don't have a clue - I'm writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it's actually going to lead him.

We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.