Quotes from Greg Rucka

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.

Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something.

I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.

There are a lot of people in the medium who came and got into the industry and work in the industry, and these are people who were raised on comics and loved comics. Comics are their religion. To such an extent, that they don't know anything else.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

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.

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.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

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.

DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic.

In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations

FN-2187 was simply Eight-Seven

What is it you do for your family? Aside from trying to put it in your sister, I mean?

Whatever the test, whatever the evaluation, FN-2187 consistently scored in the top 1 percent.

The moment between breaths Is the balance of the Force. Between life and death. Rest and action. Serenity and passion. Hope and despair. —

We thought, they have come to crush belief, because belief leads to hope, and hope can topple monsters.

What he knew was what he had been taught, and what he had been taught was simple: the First Order stood against the deprivations of the Republic. The First Order brought law to a lawless galaxy.

The First Order brought law to a lawless galaxy.

That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.

It's a big galaxy. The First Order is a remnant born of a war thirty years gone. Yes, they persist, yes, they continue, but by all accounts they do so barely. They are, at best, an ill-organized, poorly equipped, and badly funded group of loyalists who use propaganda and fear to inflate their strength and their importance.

Being cursed with human hands is no excuse for clumsiness!

POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing.

I feel sorry for you, then. Trust is as precious as it is rare, but you only get it by giving it." Ematt was sounding an awful lot like the old man had. "Trust isn't given, it's earned," Solo said. "Like friendship." "You must be very lonely," Ematt said. Solo didn't respond.