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Top 15 Mark Waid Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Waid Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.”

2. “We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.”

Mark Waid Quote: “You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can’t simply live for others.”

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

Mark Waid Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “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!”

5. “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!”

Mark Waid Quote: “Socrates should have written comics.”

6. “Socrates should have written comics.”

Mark Waid Quote: “Crushing people is the truth’s hobby.”

7. “Crushing people is the truth’s hobby.”

Mark Waid Quote: “You’re not perfect. Sometimes, you can be a real jerk. Not on purpose. Just sometimes. But no matter what, you are a man of integrity. That is your defining characteristic. You can’t see this, but it comes off you so strong that I have watched Avengers be intimidated by it. Be inspired by it. Your integrity carries a weight you can’t imagine. It has meaning.”

8. “You’re not perfect. Sometimes, you can be a real jerk. Not on purpose. Just sometimes. But no matter what, you are a man of integrity. That is your defining characteristic. You can’t see this, but it comes off you so strong that I have watched Avengers be intimidated by it. Be inspired by it. Your integrity carries a weight you can’t imagine. It has meaning.”

Mark Waid Quote: “Why can’t Spider-sense warn you when you’re about to get dumped?”

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

Mark Waid Quote: “If I’m not 100% comfortable in her world and she’s not 100% comfortable in mine... then we’ll make our own world.”

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

Mark Waid Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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

14. “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 Quote: “Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin.”

15. “Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin.”

Mark Waid Quote: “R is for Riverdale. Relatable. Right Stuff. Ravishing.”

16. “R is for Riverdale. Relatable. Right Stuff. Ravishing.”

Mark Waid Quote: “Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I’m so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.”

17. “Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I’m so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.”

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