Brian K. Vaughan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Trying, Immigration

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• To 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.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Gay, Ethnicity

  "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule". Interview with Miles E. Johnson, www.motherjones.com. December 17, 2015.

• The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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 things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Jobs, Book, Writing

• I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Running, Character, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Interview with Cormorant, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

• I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Teenager, Drama, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Lying, Writing, Sound

  "Comics Q&A: Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 1, 2008.

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

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Confused, Writing, Self

• After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Superhero, Leader

  "Ex Machina : An Interview With Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Bryan Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2010.

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