Occupation: Writer Birth: July 15, 1970
If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right..
I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weakne….
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback l….
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has ….
There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusin….
Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking for….
The dirty little secret about comics is that the wall to getting published is actually not that high. You can publish your own comic. You can have yo….
I just did an arc with Warren Ellis - and no one else on the planet could get away with this, because I think this is like harassment? - But Warren f….
I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I ….
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want..
Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted]..
Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in n….
I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore..
Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, th….
My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense..
I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. ….
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you w….
I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness.….
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies -….
I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job..
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be..