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" I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour. "

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" I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write. "

" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "

" It's good to have hobbies. "

" As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal. "

" My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win. "

" The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch. "

" There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including children. And the difference usually manifests in not talking down to kids. "

" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "

" I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points. "

" I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have become friends is because the Internet is a much more cooperative space. "

" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "

" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "

" Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay. "

" I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material! "

" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "

" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "

" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "

" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "

" Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. "

" I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time. "

" I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out. "

" I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.' "

" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "

" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "

" If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit. "

" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "

" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "

" A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it. "

" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "