Writer Quotes by Mark Waid

8 Writer quotes by Mark Waid

Mark Waid’s words on the writer’s art come in a tight group of eight, each echoing his experience in comics and storytelling. The selection gives a quick sense of his practical advice and enthusiasm for narrative structure.

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Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least…

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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing…

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In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure…

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When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very…

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What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC…

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I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.

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I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

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What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there…

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I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

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I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.

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I love writing comedy.

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Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in…

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Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.

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In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe…

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You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right…

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I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

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If you go back and look at the first issue of 'Indestructible Hulk,' if you have a sharp eye, you'll catch something that I…

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Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for…

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