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. VAUGHANI 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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.
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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.
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Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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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.
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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.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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