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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

A book makes claims of literary art.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

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.

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.