Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was "I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies."

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.

"Writer's block" is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.

The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

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

When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

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

But Cruise is really good!

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

It's about how boys become men — and why it takes women to make that transformation possible.

I just make crap up more than anything else.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.