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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
There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Feels Late Teach
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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Mean Past People
I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Drama Teenager 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.’
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Fiction Stars Stories War
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Afraid Love Without World
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
The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Comics Imagination Limited
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Comic Ends Stories
We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Girl Stand
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Fan Nice
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

Imaginative Real Stories
I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Country Mean People Suicide
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
I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
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

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