Neal Adams Quotes

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

All the guys at Marvel are really passionate, and they love entertaining folks, and they really think about the story, and there's a lot of thought that goes into that.

I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

The story is my favorite form.

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

I was not creating icons when I wrote the 'The X-Men' and the 'The New Mutants.' I was creating people.

People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.