I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANNot a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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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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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 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.
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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 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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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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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
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