“All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason.
Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.
I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“There's always money in conflict."
"Says the diehard peacenik?"
"Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“The advice to "kill your darlings" has been attributed to various authors across the various galaxies... and Mister Heist hated them all.
Why teach young writers to edit out whatever it is they feel most passionate about?
Better to kill everything in their writing they DON'T love as much.
Until only the darlings remain.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“How? How did you know...?
What, that my wife can do anything? Isn't it obvious?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
“It would be a very long time before we saw any of our original pursuers again. At least, it seemed kinda long. But nothing warps time quite like childhood. I remember visits to faraway worlds that lasted only a few days but felt like entire lifetimes. And then there were the endless journeys between destinations that somehow went by in the blink of an eye. You know how it goes.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 3
Brian K. Vaughan
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“The girls were both high school seniors, both pretty in that coltish way. The one sitting on the corner of his old bed—the one he had met for the first time an hour ago—was named Erin. Myron had started dating Erin’s mother, a widow and freelance magazine writer named Ali Wilder, two months ago. This party, here at the house Myron had grown up in and now owned, was something of a “coming out” party for Myron and Ali as a couple. The”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Promise Me
“The startled child gathered his thoughts.
I'm not entirely sure what the circumstances are, he said, but as a general rule I try to keep things simple. If I'm clear about what I want, other people have an easier time making me happy. It sounds basic, but most of the time it works.
"Duck." He spoke clearly, pointing to a wooden duck.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from Just in Case
“Let’s start with how you don’t feel sexually attractive.”
I gulped. “All right.”
“Are you fucking kidding me?”
― Samantha Young, quote from Before Jamaica Lane
“...c'è chi non si sente soffocare in una stanza dopo cinquant'anni e c'è a chi non basta un'intera nazione.”
― David Grossman, quote from Someone to Run With
“I don't mean to worry you and all... but have you noticed you've been shot?'
'Ah... I'd almost forgotten about that.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, quote from Rebel of the Sands
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