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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

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
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
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
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Life Loses Misty
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Immigration Trying Writing
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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Book Girl Paper
I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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Country Mean People Suicide
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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Imaginative Real Stories
How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
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Easter Hurt School
I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Perspective Stills
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
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.
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Better Feel Good Mom Relationship
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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Adventure Boys Female Two
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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Body Heart Men
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Book Fan Nice
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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Hands Thinking Writing

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.

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