Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.