Quotes About Author

If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.

I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.

Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.

One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

If I show you pictures of my grandmother, what you see is these eyes - cat eyes - and high cheekbones.

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

My grandpa has always been the tech-savvy one of the family.

One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel 'God Loves, Man Kills.'

I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

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've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

I believe that Conservatives do best when we focus on strong ideas for our future and when we leverage the strength of grassroots across the country.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.