Patti Smith Quotes

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

I remember bossing my younger siblings around and making them put on shows and skits with me.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my 'other' family in Africa, my other mother and father. I had totally forgotten that.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

It doesn't feel like work. Yes, I have days that are difficult, but I'm sitting in a chair making up stories. It's what I did for fun as a kid, whether with Barbies or stuffed animals.

Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.

As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

As a kid, I would keep telling my younger sister that I was a fairy who had come here to spend time with them. And I actually got to play one!

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.

I've actually never played with any of my brothers before. They've always been too old for me.

I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.