Peter David

Peter David: One does not say, I'm going to become a writer – now I need ideas. Ideas come to you whether you want them to or not.

Peter David: I played D&D exactly once... I was transformed into a thistle. They carried me around in a backpack for three hours, and at the end I was a thistle with experience.

Peter David: (About Spider-man 3) When you've written the novelization of a screenplay, you can't really enjoy the film the way other people do. For most viewers, the burning question is, "What's going to happen?" Well, I knew pretty much what was going to happen.

Peter David: I was tremendously amused to learn that the Democrats are intending to present the war funding bill to Bush - a bill he is certain to veto because, God forbid, it sets a timetable for our troops coming home - on the fourth anniversary of Bush standing in front of that damned "Mission Accomplished" sign. Think of it as Operation MAMA--Mission Accomplished, My Ass.

Peter David: (About writing his Babylon 5 novels) I didn't want anyone to get the idea - as some fans seemed to have garnered - that Joe (J. Michael Strazcynski) gave any less than 110% in creating the storylines for the three Centauri Prime novels. I should have made it very clear that I was talking about seven to eight pages single spaced for each book rather than the entire series; in fact, Joe's outlines were around 3500 words each so, depending upon formatting, it might have been more pages than that. Glad I had the chance to clarify that.

Peter David: (on writing the 'Dark Tower' comic books) The thing that's intimidating is that I am writing a book that's going to one particular person (Stephen King), for whom this is a very personal story. So the notion that I'm going to be doing this adaptation, and that Steve is going to be looking over everything? Yeah, that is kind of daunting.