Gene Luen Yang Quotes

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.

Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print in the long term is in paperback. The hardback has a certain life, and then it stops having that. It stops selling, and if you want the book to just stay around there has to be a paperback edition. So if there were not a paperback edition the book would eventually disappear from the shelves, and we would have lost the battle.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.

I know a lot of people that still buy comics, go to the shop every week, I know people who read them on an iPad. My brother reads on an iPad every week, he downloads his comics every week.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

I don't read cartoons because I think for the most part the comics don't have an interest for me. There's just nothing there these days that makes me want to go seek them out. I'm not trying to say my work wouldn't have sparked that same reaction from somebody else. There's just nothing there for me personally.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.