Dreams shape the world

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.