Christopher Moore

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

I don't like to get in front of people.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!