Stan Lee

Stan Lee

Comic Book Writer, Editor

Stan Lee was a comic book writer and editor, co-creating iconic characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men, revolutionizing the superhero genre.

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Born
December 28, 1922
Died
November 12, 2018
Quotes
196
Rank
#296

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"One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist."

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"If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun."

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

Writing Giving Advice
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"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."

Art Wall Book
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"Reading is very good. And you can quote me!"

Reading Very Good
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"I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative."

Thinking People Bigger Than Life
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"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."

Writing People Guy
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"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."

Cheating Technology Giving
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"I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not."

Guy Trying Messages
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"I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself."

Disappointment Play World
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"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."

Jobs Book Years
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"I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas."

Thinking Interesting Reeds
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"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."

Jobs Book Men
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"Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good."

Sports Song People
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"If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!"

Ifs
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"It's just, it's fun to stay in the game."

Fun Games
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"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."

Educational Book Thinking
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"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."

Children Stupid Book
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"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?"

Book Mean Play
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"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."

Character Kids Thinking
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