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" Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. "

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" The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written. "

" I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean? "

" I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people. "

" Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. "

" I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers. "

" There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team. "

" Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender. "

" My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator. "

" I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission. "

" There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose. "

" It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be. "

" Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something. "

" I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. "

" What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. "

" The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story. "

" Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting. "

" I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in. "

" I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong. "

" When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.' "

" We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey. "

" I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard. "

" There are a lot of people in the medium who came and got into the industry and work in the industry, and these are people who were raised on comics and loved comics. Comics are their religion. To such an extent, that they don't know anything else. "

" DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic. "

" Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction. "

" I like the 'Keystone Kops' storyline. It didn't actually go quite the way I wanted to, but it was another great way to show how different life was in these two different corners of the DCU, being on the ground in these different areas. "

" I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work. "

" Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write. "

" Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true. "

" You know how a nonlethal weapon is supposed to work? A nonlethal weapon works on the basis of three things: It needs to deter, and that's normally done through pain, and that pain creates a byproduct, which is fear. "

" The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. "