Quotes About Progress

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

It is obviously always nice to start in a strong way, but it's also very important to keep that strength during the year - the season is quite long, from March to November.

More than' is the tagline of the company LeBron and I started in November 2014 called Uninterrupted. 'More Than' is Uninterrupted's 'Just Do It' or 'Think Different.'

I've had a great coach, John Norfolk, who has taken me from a novice to a great cyclist.

I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every time I do a film job, and I am very admiring of film actors.

The future is always beginning now.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.