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Marjorie M. Liu

Marjorie M. Liu (born 1979) is an American New York Times best-selling author and comic novelist. Her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels include most notable The Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series. Her work for Marvel Comics include NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine, and Astonishing X-Men. She also writes Monstress for Image Comics for which she was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for Monstress Vol. 1.

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Nice characters are boring!

Boring, Character, Characters, Nice

I've been going to San Diego's Comic-Con every year since 2007 or 2008. The first time I went it was an overwhelming experience because I wasn't expecting all the people; I wasn't even expecting all the joy. I came from a background where, when I was about eighteen or nineteen, I found comic-book fandom. But it was the fandom of online communities. And within those communities there was a tremendous amount of excitement and joy, but I'd never been around people in such a large group setting where this joy was pouring out of them. It was a revelation.

Community, Eighteen, Group, Joy, People, Pouring

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99. 9% of the writers are women, most of the editors are women, and these are books written for the female gaze. And so my point of view - the way I looked at fandom and publishing and writing - was all about women. So for me that's what was natural, that's what was comfortable. And then I moved over to comics. And all of a sudden it was. . . Pardon the expression, it was a sausage fest.

Book, Comfortable, Gaze, Romance, Sausage, Writing

I have a great deal of hope. I think that change is here, it's happening. But I know that if we think it's just going to happen on its own, that's not the way it works. We need people to keep talking about women of color writing comics and living the charge. Not just talking but doing. Making art, putting it out there.

Art, Charge, Hope, Living, Thinking, Writing

The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever. This is a visual medium in which the eye and the mind work together to bear witness to story, to lives.

Art, Book, Eye, Mind, Words

I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are published each month, just a handful are written by women, and even less of those are written by women of color. It's not right, and it's not good for the companies in the long-term. It's also not good for fans, for readers.

Believe, Book, Books, I Believe, Month, Written

How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick. ""Maybeyou should rupture something. ""Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.

Army, Bed, Hospital, Nurse, Sick, Stories

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Black, Crazy, Know, Live, Where You Live

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

Expecting, Mother, Said, Unexpected

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

Name, Night, Though, Wind, Winter

The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And to any girls or young women who want to write comics, I tell them, "You have to use your voice. You have to take up space. " We have to fight to be heard. No one else is going to fight for us.

Art, Girl, Tell, Writing, Young

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

Artist, Being An Artist, Granted, Ideas, Take

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

Kindness, Mind, Receive, Vulnerable

When I first started out in comics they would put me on these Women of Marvel panels, and these young women would come up to me and say, "I really want to write comics but I don't know if I can because I'm told that it's just for guys. " I would say, "That's bullshit. That's absolute bullshit. Look at me!" But the one area where we still need to work on is that we need more women of color. That's not common thing yet.

Bullshit, Comics, Guy, Work, Writing, Young

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Balls, Beautiful, Cross, Cutting, Men, Woman