If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character’s nature fit in? How does that manifest? Greg Rucka Read Quote
Emotional honesty transcends reality; it’s what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true. Greg Rucka Read Quote
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. Greg Rucka Read Quote
I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard. Greg Rucka Read Quote
When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that’s what I studied, I mean, scholarly. Greg Rucka Read Quote
When I was in third grade, I would run home – literally run home from school – and if I could make it in time, I could get home and the put the TV on in time to catch the answering machine message at the start of ‘The Rockford Files.’ Greg Rucka Read Quote
The goal with ‘Alpha’ was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn’t change depending on the medium. Greg Rucka Read Quote
The writer’s curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you’re doing, the more I think it shows. Greg Rucka Read Quote
The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives. Greg Rucka Read Quote
