With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

- Duane Swierczynski

I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

- Duane Swierczynski

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

- Duane Swierczynski

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when…

- Duane Swierczynski

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

- Duane Swierczynski

Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics r…

- Duane Swierczynski

I read like fiends smoke crack

- Duane Swierczynski

Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.

- Duane Swierczynski