Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'