Quotes from Kelly Sue DeConnick

I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.

If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.

Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.

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.

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.

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

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.

If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!

Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent.

I want young women to see my name on 'Avengers Assembled' and to know that there are women who write mainstream superhero comics, and if it is something that interests them, it can be done.

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.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

It's the dying that makes the living matter.

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Fear is not a choice.

Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.

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

When they play MARRY/FUCK/KILL, you'll never be KILL again!

I will make it if I have to crawl.

We are all shaped by what we do.

It's a reckoning I'm after.

You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast.

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