“Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where ...” — Greg Rucka Quote

“Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go.”

“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 think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?”

“Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.”

“I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.”

“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.”

“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”

“No matter how hard you throw it or what you've got out there, you've just got to find a way to compete. For me, I think it's just keeping the ball down, locating my fastball and keeping it on the corners.”

“I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.”

“The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.”

“Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.”

“I'm not sliding in and out of corners like Iga.”