We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do. Stan Lee More Quotes by Stan Lee More Quotes From Stan Lee Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved. Stan Lee artist hands america I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me. Stan Lee good-guy guy writing I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more. 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Stan Lee superhero kind would-be The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14 Stan Lee endless stills prayer Some people are able to not only entertain the public in any way that they can but also in some way to throw in some sort of inspirational message with the entertainment. I have always tried to do that with whatever I wrote. And I'm sure that a lot of other writers do, too. Stan Lee able people way I think superheroes are bigger than life and they're very colorful. Stan Lee bigger-than-life superhero thinking 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 artist writing ideas Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. 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It's not like working. It's like playing with your friends. When I was a kid, I'd say to my mother, "Can I go out and play with the kids now?" Now I'm out playing with the kids all day long. Stan Lee mother play kids We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story. Stan Lee illustration moving thinking
