I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time. Stan Lee More Quotes by Stan Lee More Quotes From Stan Lee 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 live-for-today alive writing 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 Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today. Stan Lee achilles names today Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto Stan Lee color hate skins It's just, it's fun to stay in the game. Stan Lee games fun Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations. Stan Lee character kids thinking I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know. Stan Lee sidekicks superhero teenager It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part. Stan Lee dream character thinking 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 advice giving 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 guy writing people I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person. Stan Lee principles trying men I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself. Stan Lee disappointment play world 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 Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next villain be Dr. Doom" ... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He's so good at plots, I'm sure he's a thousand times better than I. He just makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing ... I may tell him that he's gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I'll give him a plot, but we're practically both the writers on the things. Stan Lee artist home mean Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating your audience. You're not giving them the best story and the best direction and so forth. Stan Lee technology giving cheating 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 wall book art I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him. Stan Lee would-be fun character Reading is very good. And you can quote me! Stan Lee very-good reading 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 stupid book children To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story. Stan Lee writing fun long
