72 Quotes by Kelly Sue DeConnick

I think I’m very strong at dialogue, I think I’m very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn’t as interesting as I’d like it to be.

I need to go where I’m not comfortable. I think that’s the artist’s job.

You can’t write something actively trying to please everyone – you’re going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There’s an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... A moment when she’s outrun every doubt and fear she’s ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. I need to find that again. Like taking a car out into the desert to see how fast it can go, I need to find the edge of me... And maybe, if I fly far enough, I’ll be able to turn around and look at the world... And see where I belong.

We are all shaped by what we do.