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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.

My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are much better.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

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

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.