126 Quotes by Mark Waid

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.

Why can’t Spider-sense warn you when you’re about to get dumped?

I know this is scary. You’re hungry and cold and you want to give up! But you can’t turn on each other! Not now! Show me how brave you can be by pulling together! Do it for each other! That’s the trick! Because when you reach out – when you extend yourself for other people – that’s when you’re without fear!

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.

You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can’t simply live for others.

If you’re going to survive in this world, here’s what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

It’s not often that I get to remember and use phrases like “on out my farm” or “powerful ugly” in modern scripts.

If I’m not 100% comfortable in her world and she’s not 100% comfortable in mine... then we’ll make our own world.

Crushing people is the truth’s hobby.