All Great Popular Literature Today One Day

I Think Of Writers As Explorers, Not Necessarily As Detectives. So There Is Certainly Detecting That Is Going On - They're Explorers.

Comic Books Were Telling Me What Life Was About. This Was How I Kind Of Entered Life, Through Fiction.

The Love Of Writing Comes At A Very Early Age. For Me, For Instance, Comic Books So Affected Me. And A Lot Of People Who Come Up To Me And Start Talking About Writing, When I Start Talking To Them About The "fantastic Four," They Look At Me Aghast. They Say, "'the Fantastic Four?' That's Not Literature." I Say, "yeah, But It Was When I Was 11 Years Old." This Was Literature.

Young People Live Exactly Today... And They Live In The Immediacy Of Their World. And It's Important For Us, People From Older Generations To Realize That A Lot Of Our Values, A Lot Of Our Truths Are No Longer Truths, Are No Longer Valuable.

This Is All You Have To Do. Sit Down Once A Day To The Novel And Start Working Without Internal Criticism, Without Debilitating Expectations, Without The Need To Look At Your Words As If They Were Already Printed And Bound. The Beginning Is Only A Draft. Drafts Are Imperfect By Definition.