Stan Lee Quotes About Books

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Art Books Challenges Character Fairy Tales Fun Giving

I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.

Stan Lee

Book, Bridges, Careers

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

Stan Lee

Book, Thinking, Average
All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.

Stan Lee

Jobs, Book, Years

"Comic book king Stan Lee loves the everyday superhero". Interview with B.J. Hammerstein, www.usatoday.com. May 17, 2013.
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.

Stan Lee

Strong, Fun, Book
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
Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

Stan Lee

Book, Mean, Play
I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

Stan Lee

Jobs, Book, Men
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
... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.

Stan Lee

Book, Artist, Giving
The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense.

Stan Lee

Teenage, Book, Superhero

Source: movieweb.com
Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.

Stan Lee

Book, Pace, Comic Book

Source: nerdist.com
The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

Stan Lee

Communication, Book, Phones

Source: www.theartsdesk.com
That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

Stan Lee

Mother, Growing Up, Stupid
No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

Stan Lee

Book, Stories, Matter

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!

Stan Lee

Nice, Book, Comic

Source: nerdist.com
Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

Stan Lee

Reading, Book, Way

Source: wwd.com
In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good.

Stan Lee

Book, Important, Stories

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

Stan Lee

Book, Giving, Dumb

Source: nerdist.com
I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

Stan Lee

Educational, Book, Thinking

Source: www.ign.com
I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."

Stan Lee

Nice, Book, Thinking

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
You can't kill a good comic book series.

Stan Lee

Book, Comic Book, Comic

Source: nerdist.com
It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.

Stan Lee

Book, Media, Way

Source: www.ign.com
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Stan Lee

Book, Fairy Tale, Comic

"The Playboy Interview: Stan Lee on Superheroes, Marvel and Being Just Another Pretty Face". Interview with David Hochman, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 31, 2014.
Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.

Stan Lee

Art, Book, Pride
I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not quite the same. It doesn't move quite as fast.

Stan Lee

Moving, Book, Months

Source: nerdist.com

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Born: December 28, 1922
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