87+ Brian K. Vaughan Quotes On Education, Guard And Creative

Brian K. Vaughan is an American comic book and television writer, best known for his work on the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Saga. He has also written for television series such as Lost and Under the Dome. Vaughan is currently writing the comic book series Paper Girls, We Stand on Guard, and The Private Eye. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Brian K. Vaughan on leadership, education, life.

Top 10 Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

1. My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
2. My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
3. When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
4. For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
5. I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.
6. A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
7. Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.
8. I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.
9. Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
10. The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Brian K. Vaughan Short Quotes

• Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
• Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.
• Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!
• There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.
• I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
• I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.
• Print and digital comics will always coexist.
• Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
• Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.
• I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

Brian K. Vaughan Quotes About Life

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life. — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

Life is mostly just learning how to lose. — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan Quotes About Love

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. — Brian K. Vaughan

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations. — Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan Famous Quotes And Sayings

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

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

You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires. — Brian K. Vaughan

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright. — Brian K. Vaughan

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins. — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time. — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two. — Brian K. Vaughan

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself. — Brian K. Vaughan

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back. — Brian K. Vaughan

But nothing warps time quite like childhood — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else. — Brian K. Vaughan

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back. — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies? — Brian K. Vaughan

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

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

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about. — Brian K. Vaughan

People just want good stories. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

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

Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings. — Brian K. Vaughan

It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me. — Brian K. Vaughan

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally. — Brian K. Vaughan

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on. — Brian K. Vaughan

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second. — Brian K. Vaughan

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same. — Brian K. Vaughan

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win. — Brian K. Vaughan

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things. — Brian K. Vaughan

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed. — Brian K. Vaughan

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again. — Brian K. Vaughan

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

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

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us. — Brian K. Vaughan

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era. — Brian K. Vaughan

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree? — Brian K. Vaughan

We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12. — Brian K. Vaughan

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance. — Brian K. Vaughan

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it. — Brian K. Vaughan

The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination. — Brian K. Vaughan

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice. — Brian K. Vaughan

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable. — Brian K. Vaughan

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius! — Brian K. Vaughan

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids. — Brian K. Vaughan

I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?" — Brian K. Vaughan

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die. — Brian K. Vaughan

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books. — Brian K. Vaughan

Life Lessons by Brian K. Vaughan

1. Brian K. Vaughan's work emphasizes the importance of understanding and respecting different perspectives, as well as the power of storytelling to bring people together.
2. His stories often explore themes of identity, family, and the consequences of our choices, reminding us to be mindful of the impact our decisions can have on others.
3. Vaughan's work encourages us to think critically about the world around us and to strive to create a better future for ourselves and our communities.