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I Write Dozens And Dozens Of Pages More Than I Need, And Then Edit Them Down To Size. It's More Like Sculpture Than Construction.

Metaphor Is One Of A Group Of Problem-solving Medicines Known As Figures Of Speech Which Are Normally Used To Treat Literal Thinking And Other Diseases.

We Love Our Superheroes Because They Refuse To Give Up On Us. We Can Analyze Them Out Of Existence, Kill Them, Ban Them, Mock Them, And Still They Return, Patiently Reminding Us Of Who We Are And What We Wish We Could Be.

I've Always Felt I Had More In Common With The Modernist Approach Than With Postmodernism, But I Can See Where The Connection Might Arise - And To Be Honest, I'm No Academic, So I Tend To Use These Words, Like In Alice In Wonderland, To Mean What I Want Them To Mean Rather Than What They Actually Do Mean.

American Writers Often Say They Find It Difficult To Write Superman. They Say He's Too Powerful; You Can't Give Him Problems. But Superman Is A Metaphor. For Me, Superman Has The Same Problems We Do, But On A Paul Bunyan Scale. If Superman Walks The Dog, He Walks It Around The Asteroid Belt Because It Can Fly In Space. When Superman's Relatives Visit, They Come From The 31st Century And Bring Some Hellish Monster Conqueror From The Future. But It's Still A Story About Your Relatives Visiting.