Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

You become a great writer by writing.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write in your own.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I prefer writing originals.