When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
I love comic books and always did as a kid.
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Books and marriage go ill together.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.