Brian K. Vaughan

I don't think anything connects with an audience as deeply as a long-form serialized drama, and much as I love television, I've always found a good ongoing comics series to be much more immersive. ”

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' ”

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 never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things. ”

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 never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas. ”

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty. ”

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil. ”

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see. ”

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters. ”