The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

[Paper Girls] needed to have a certain kind of almost neon style to it, but at the same time we wanted also to show the modern perspective that we had.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories of growing and we're putting so much of our present day into it as well.

I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.