Stan Lee Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

  Stan Lee

  Powerful, Writing, Character

  Stan Lee, Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra, Ashwin Pande, Dean Trippe (2015). “Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015”, p.10, Graphic India

• The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Giving, Advice

  "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 19, 1996.

• Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Love Life, Character

  "Comic book king Stan Lee loves the everyday superhero". Interview, www.usatoday.com. May 17, 2013.

• To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.

  Stan Lee

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Wall, Book

  Source: movieweb.com

• To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Writing, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

• Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

• I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

  Stan Lee

  Regret, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

• I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, People, Guy

  Source: wwd.com

• If nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to do anything else because it's no fun writing stories, particularly not for me. I just do it in order to sell them and make a couple of bucks.

  Stan Lee

  Couple, Fun, Writing

  "Stan Lee on Realism in the World of Comic Heroes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 27, 2006.

• I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Waiting, Guardian

  "Stan Lee Will Not Appear In Guardians Of The Galaxy" By Adam Dileo, www.ign.com. January 22, 2014.

• Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Should Have, Perfect

  Source: www.theartsdesk.com

• If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Live For Today, Alive

  Stan Lee, Jeff McLaughlin (2007). “Stan Lee: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.

  Stan Lee

  Children, Stupid, Book

  "EXCLUSIVE: Stan Lee Calls Up MovieWeb to Talk Fantastic Four". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 11, 2005.

• No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Order, Matter

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

  Stan Lee

  Morning, Jobs, Writing

• I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Superhero, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

• I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Guy, Good Guy

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

• When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.

  Stan Lee

  Hero, Writing, Wonderful

  Source: www.hbook.com

• Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

• I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies. I write a concept, a treatment, an outline, and if I sell that to a studio, then someone else does the actual production and I go on to another project, although I keep the title executive producer.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Ideas, Goes On

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Press conference, www.movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

• I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change. By the time my stories come out, it will have changed. So I never think much about that.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Political

  Source: wwd.com

• It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories, I love coming up with ideas for new projects and I love the people I work with, because I work with great writers and artists and directors and actors.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

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