Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

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• But nothing warps time quite like childhood
• Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
• Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
• 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…
• Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
• There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is…
• When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
• I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.
• I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
• I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.
• After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.
• There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
• Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
• A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,
• Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.
• Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
• That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
• Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
• My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has…
• The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

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