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Saga, Volume 3

Brian K. Vaughan

Top 10 Best Quotes

“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?”

“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.”

“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”

“There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.”

“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.”

“After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.”

“There's always money in conflict." "Says the diehard peacenik?" "Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.”

“Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.”

“Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.”

“How? How did you know...? What, that my wife can do anything? Isn't it obvious?”

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Book Keywords:

sad, compassion, individuality, childhood, children-s-books, time, love, break-the-4th-wall, life, writing, kill-your-darlings

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