When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
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.
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.