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I don't write fight scenes in comics all that well. I think they're a waste of space unless they can move a story forward in some compelling fashion. You've only got twenty-two pages to work with. Why throw that away on a set of meaningless punches?
Marjorie Liu
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Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own.
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The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.
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I'd like to go back in time and haunt Robert Louis Stevenson during his years in the South Pacific.
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It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.
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As a writer - and a romance novelist, no less - I've always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain in relationship limbo for years at a time.
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My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.
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We all know that I love writing Gambit.
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I don't want it to be a mission, but of course I always love to see more diversity in comics. I always love to see more women.
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I think when you look at the diversity of the readership, all the different people who love comics, I want comics to reflect the real world, and I think Marvel does a good job of trying to do that, but I don't think there's ever an end point when it comes to creating diversity and creating stories that people can relate to.
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Word of mouth is the saving grace of us all. If you love something and you think your friend will love it, just talk about it.
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When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.
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