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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANThere’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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.
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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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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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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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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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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 don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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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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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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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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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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