93 Quotes by Tom King

That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him.

My scripts, they're pretty serious. I basically just describe stuff. I don't put too many notes and letters to the editors. But when I wrote 'KGBLT,' in parentheses I wrote, 'Well this is the best thing I've ever written. It will all be downhill from here. I'm so sorry for the rest of my career.'

Honestly, I grew up a huge Peanuts fan.

You can't tell a Batman story without the Joker, and you can't tell a Joker story without Batman. They're just the symbols of the best and worst of humanity.

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.

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'