Did I really win? ... I had kind of figured it was not my year. My goodness, this is exciting. |
I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy. |
I don't think anything else can be hopeful or accomplished if you have the fear that you will get arrested or prosecuted or censored, ... I saw a cry for help. So it was my goal to try to get writers whose work and whose name would be meaningful to the greatest number of people. |
It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge – you can say this book is all mine, it's my world. Whether giving over some of that has any monetary value or not, we'll see. |
It just made sense to apply this on a grander scale. If one of us can raise that much for a nonprofit on his own, what could a dozen or more authors pull in for the First Amendment Project? |
It was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book publishers were definitely pioneers. |
It's very difficult to fail at pornography |
It's very difficult to fail at pornography |
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem, |
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. |
the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate. |
The winning names were not even remotely names I would have chosen or invented. |
To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books. |