Neal Adams Quotes

I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life.

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I rarely read children's books.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

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.

As far as fiction goes, as far as everything from Dr. Seuss to Oscar Wilde to Bret Easton Ellis. Ray Bradbury. There's just tons of stuff that I love. Neil Gaiman!

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.

No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.