Quotes About Author

The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.

I found that air of menace more inspiring than upsetting

but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.

and she, in turn, had cast a spell over the art world through the magic of controversy.

Awkward brilliance in a boy is more easily categorized, and it conveys no sexual threat.

My hope made me pathetic, but I comforted myself with the fact that I was my only witness.

Lucille had once called them psychic's hands, and I wondered what it would be like to penetrate the minds of others. I knew little enough about myself.

Neither of these staring experiences was erotic for me, but they may have been for the two young men who did the staring. Who I was for either of them remains a mystery to me, a blank filled with my own dread.

Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.