Peter Milligan Quotes

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.

I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables the readers' creativity and interaction with the book.

I love continuity. I was a continuity nerd growing up. I loved buying a comic in the middle of something and loved digging for back issues or going forward and trying to figure it all out.

I'm excited for Christy Marx taking over 'Birds of Prey'. I adore 'Rachel Rising' by the great Terry Moore. I'm also a stone cold Scott Snyder fan; the guy is a joy to read and a pleasure to work with.

Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the people behind the pages of their favorite books.

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So when it comes to 'Elektra', they didn't follow one of her specific story lines, you know. They really tried to capture what comes through the comics, but there's not one specific storyline.

A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me.

I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.