I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect..

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attit….

There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys b….

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies.".

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character….

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think..

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party..

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories..

It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens..

Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience….

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old..

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors..

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful….

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right..

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it shou….

I've always been positive about superheroes..

What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at th….

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one..

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't….

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it….

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it….