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Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.