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I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.