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I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

Paint the essential character of things.

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

Colors and prints are part of my style.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.