Gene Luen Yang Reading Quotations

For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.