Marjorie Liu Quotes

Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

For me, writing the 'X-Men' was easy - is easy. I know these people, they're my friends.

What's nice is between 'Wolverine and the X-Men' and 'Thor,' I get to write two very different kinds of stories. Both of them really seem to scratch some itches for me.

One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a challenge to every issue of 'X-Men.'

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I'm a fan of X-men.

I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've done, and I haven't really, you know. I've just told some stories.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

I've always been a Marvel fan, always been a 'Deadpool' fan.