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" When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly. "

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" I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. "

" We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out. "

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

" Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about. "

" I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I've ever enjoyed. "

" For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters. "

" 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 love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he's a Don Quixote. "

" The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives. "

" 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. "

" You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt. "

" 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. "

" I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it. "

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

" 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? "

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

" I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book. "

" I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly. "

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

" When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face. "

" Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best. "