"Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story."

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"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."

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"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

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"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

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"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

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"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."

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"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

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"I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel."

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"I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done."

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"The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire."

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"It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late."

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"I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude."

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