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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

The Trump International is way under budget and way ahead of schedule. And we should be able to do that for our country.

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

When love and discipline come together you have great chemistry.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.