"Each morning my characters greet me with..." - Quote by John Updike

“Authors should be honored only for their works.”

“For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.”

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

“I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.”

“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”

“The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.”

“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”

“You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”

“One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”