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Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Brian K. Vaughan

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Brian K. Vaughan
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 17
Comics Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Cleveland
Ohio
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I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
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Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
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There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
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I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.
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I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be elevated into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?
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When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
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I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.
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Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.
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It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.
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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 less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
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There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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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.
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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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