Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. 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.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

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

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

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

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

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

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.

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.