Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

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.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

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.

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literally the only thing I'd change. I'd stop being so afraid of other people.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

Well, I've always wanted to call my son

Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.

Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.

The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.

Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country.""Don't sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit.

Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I realized fighting would be way more emotionally satisfying." -Buffy