"People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief."

People, Saying

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"People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief."

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

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

Fun,

"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly."

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"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."

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

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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 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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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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