G. Willow Wilson Quotes

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

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.

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

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

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

I love writing comics too much.

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

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 don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time.