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. It was a stylistic choice.

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

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 confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.

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 would want to read and hope that people like them.

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. But I think you kind of have to be.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

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.

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 weaknesses in my plotting.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.

You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.