Occupation: Writer Birth: July 17, 1954
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing..
If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it.….
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library….
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast..
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover an….
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is….
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't….
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered….
I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in qual….
NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS If we are to be who we are; if we are to accomplish great things; then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER ….
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons..
A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules..
I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream..
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff..
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wr….
I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done ….
Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can m….
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how y….