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“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
-- Len Wein

#Friendship #Best Friend #Patience
“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”
-- Len Wein

#Art #Mistake #Eye
“When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.”
-- Len Wein

#Writing #Differences #Editors
“It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.”
-- Len Wein

#Office #Lenses #Sitting
“People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.”
-- Len Wein

#Character #People #Sake
“Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well.”
-- Len Wein

#Embarrassed #Wells
“What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.”
-- Len Wein

#Lenses #Stories #Visceral
“Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.”
-- Len Wein

#Titles #Lenses #Looks
“The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?”
-- Len Wein

#Character #Humanity #Lenses
“Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.”
-- Len Wein

#Thinking #Lenses #Done
“When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.”
-- Len Wein

#Jobs #Writing #Laughing
“In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.”
-- Len Wein

#Home #Ideas #Lenses
“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”
-- Len Wein

#Lenses #Stories
“I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.”
-- Len Wein

#Character #Trying #Lenses
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.”
-- Len Wein

#Dad #Book #Kids
“I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.”
-- Len Wein

#Nature #New York #Character
“I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.”
-- Len Wein

#Years #Editors #Clue
“I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.”
-- Len Wein

#Differences #Important #Lenses
“You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
-- Len Wein

#Different #Lenses #Textbooks
“I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.”
-- Len Wein

#Effort #Lenses #Judgment
“Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.”
-- Len Wein

#Lenses #Stories #Way
“These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.”
-- Len Wein

#Lenses #These Days
“When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.”
-- Len Wein

#Glimpse #Lenses #Firsts
“In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.”
-- Len Wein

#People #Beginners #Lenses
“I would like immortality.”
-- Len Wein

#Lenses #Immortality
“I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.”
-- Len Wein

#Trying #Lenses #Rooms
“I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.”
-- Len Wein

#Fire #Rays #Lenses
“I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”
-- Len Wein

#Art #School #College
“A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.”
-- Len Wein

#Writing #Lenses #Matter
“I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.”
-- Len Wein

#Past #Thinking #Trying

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