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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.

Brian K. Vaughan

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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Internet Privacy Thinking
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Life Loses Misty
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 think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Kids People Thinking
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
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Ethnicity Gay Writing
Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Bichest Terror Yeah
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Editors Stories
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
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
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 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
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Letters Scripts
Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Good Matter Partnership
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
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

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