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Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
Greg Rucka
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We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.
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The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.
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There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.
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For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.
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I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.
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The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.
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Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about.
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There are still plenty of people who want to burn me at the stake for my Wonder Woman run. And I can't really blame them, you know? That was my take on the character, and when people are invested in the characters, they see them very clearly and in the way they like.
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I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.
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For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn't mean they are capable of doing it.
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DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic.
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