72 Quotes by Kelly Sue DeConnick

It’s the dying that makes the living matter.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn’t have to!

I will make it if I have to crawl.

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.