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I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.

~Gail Simone

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I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

~Gail Simone

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I like DC, and I love the DC Universe. It's a source of never-ending joy to me.

~Gail Simone

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I've always said my whole career that I wanted to write by the improv credo, 'don't negate,' which means, even if you didn't care for something, you try to make it work. You don't say, 'Oh, that particular story didn't happen.'

~Gail Simone

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As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.

~Gail Simone

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A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an easy, convenient story accelerator, that we missed the sense of having characters have to struggle to discover, to solve mysteries. Famously, it helped make Batman less of a detective and more of a monster hunter.

~Gail Simone

Topics: Batman Characters Convenient Detective Discover Easy Editors Had Having Helped Hunter Less Lot Made Make Missed Monster More Mysteries Oracle Problem Readers Sense She Solve Story Struggle

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I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers.

~Gail Simone

Topics: Adult Discussion Feel Like Place Readers Vertigo I Feel I Feel Like

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I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.

~Gail Simone

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I've said this many times: I don't care which hero punches which hero to get the Infinity Jockstrap or whatever. I do care that people find humanity in these stories, and maybe something connects, makes the world a little better for having read it.

~Gail Simone

Topics: Better Care Connects Find Get Having Hero Humanity Infinity Little Makes Many Maybe People Punches Read Said Something Stories Times Whatever Which World

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I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

~Gail Simone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 29th, 1974

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