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I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

Brian K. Vaughan

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Kids People Thinking
I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Girl Paper
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Budgets Comic Imagination
There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Feels Late Teach
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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Adventure Cowboy Play
My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Better Feel Good Mom Relationship
I like being around teenagers. It’s good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They’re mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.
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Bodies Everything Teenagers Weird
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Knowing Life Stand True
It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

History Interesting Itself Repeats Trying
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Character Issues Winning
I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Factor Mention Names Talking Two
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hands Thinking Writing
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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Fiction Stars Stories War
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Body Heart Men
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Life Loses Misty
The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artist Giving Writing

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