Adrian Tomine Quotes

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

Something like 'Dr. Thirteen,' which features no big characters, was probably the most fun thing I've worked on because the story was so great, and it was written so well.

The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.

I write novels and other things.

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how to be visual and economical with scenes. However, finally it's the individuality of the writer that will come into play.

I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.