Dario Argento Quotes

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it was very natural for me when I came to write the 'Prydain' books to sort of follow that direction.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good to do. So when I finally did it, it wasn't so strange or bizarre.

I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.

I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.

I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I'd make stories, make films.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.