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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story.

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.