'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
A book makes claims of literary art.
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.