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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANTo 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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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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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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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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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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Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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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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