My biggest regret is that I don’t really have time to read.
We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.
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.
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.
When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they’re so good at what they do, it doesn’t feel like work. It’s like you’re playing.
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 that was the thing I hated.
To me, writing is fun. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, as long as you can tell a story.
There’s never a time when I’m not working. I don’t take vacations.
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.
The thing to me that’s fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it’s especially challenging when you’re doing fantasy stories, when you’re doing superhero types of things.
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.
Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn’t want to see it on the stage?
Reading is very good. And you can quote me!
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?
Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
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.
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.
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.