Len Wein Quotes

• I’ve had editors over the years who couldn’t find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

  Len Wein

• I’ve always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I’ll get to the place I intend to reach.

  Len Wein

• I’m a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  Len Wein

• I would like immortality.

  Len Wein

• 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

• I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

  Len Wein

• I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

  Len Wein

• I think there’s something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

  Len Wein

• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  Len Wein

• I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

  Len Wein

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  Len Wein

• 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

• I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

  Len Wein

• Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

  Len Wein

• A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

  Len Wein

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.

  Len Wein

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Birth:	12th June, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Len Wein is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men. Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen. Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.

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