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

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

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

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe it's because I talk too much!

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.