Stan Lee Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

• 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

• 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

• ... 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

• 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

• The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Comic, Wellspring

  Source: nerdist.com

• I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Superhero, Comic

• Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and want to see more of the character, they start buying the comic books. So a good movie helps the sale of the comic books and the comic books help the movie and one hand washes the other. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that comics will die out.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Book, Character

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

• The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Comic, Made

  Source: nerdist.com

• 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

  Children, Stupid, Book

  "EXCLUSIVE: Stan Lee Calls Up MovieWeb to Talk Fantastic Four". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 11, 2005.

• I do know that people enjoy reading a comic book and saving it and collecting the comics. And sharing them and trading them with friends. That may be something you can't do as easily with digital comics.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Book, People

  Source: nerdist.com

• I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Cartoon, Facts

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