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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

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.

People love their comic books.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

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.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

I'm not the biggest comic book fan.