Mark Waid Quotes

#1. The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.

Mark Waid

#2. Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

Mark Waid

#3. It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

Mark Waid

#4. Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?

Mark Waid

#5. Under oath and with God and the media as my witness, I'm telling you that I am Daredevil. Always have been, always will be.

Mark Waid

#6. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.

Mark Waid

#7. Comics are expensive. Don't make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters - preferably both - and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

Mark Waid

#8. Time is a racehorse, eating up the furlongs as it gallops towards the finish line. Look away for a moment, be preoccupied for a moment, and then imagine what has passed you by.

William Boyd

#9. When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.

Mark Waid

#10. Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

Mark Waid

#11. I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

Chad Hugo

#12. Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#13. The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom
They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon

Tupac Shakur

#14. She's [Hillary Clinton] been there for 30 years. She's not going to change. Because you look at her donors.

Donald Trump

#15. I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Crushing people is the truth's hobby.

Mark Waid

#17. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

Elizabeth McCracken

#18. The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go ... When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#19. Act sensibly.
Act sincerely.
Act selflessly.
Act splendidly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!

Mark Waid

#21. Each time I think I've made a connection with someone ... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.

Mark Waid

#22. If you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause ... then get your pathetic, cynical ass out of my way so I can do my job!

Mark Waid

#23. Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin

Mark Waid

#24. I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.

Britt Ekland

#25. Socrates should have written comics.

Mark Waid

#26. Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses ... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.

Mark Waid

#27. I'm a lousy journalist.

Judith Rossner