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. VAUGHANMy mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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.
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I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
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I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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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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I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls.
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What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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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.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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