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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

Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Breathe Disgusting Next People Same
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
Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Good Matter Partnership
We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Boys Female Two
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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Character Issues Winning
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
To try and imagine that I’m another person is always going to be hard – whether I’m writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who’s trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.
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Ethnicity Gay Writing
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
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
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Letters Scripts
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Afraid Love Without World
I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Books Jobs Manipulate Thinking Writing
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Comic Ends Stories
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
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
After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Leader Superhero Writing

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