Markus Zusak Quotes

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 loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And, of course, that was the defining movie for me as a kid.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

I still know the lyrics to pretty much any 'Mary Poppins' song.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.

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

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.

I place 'Star Wars' on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

I grew up in the '70s, early '80s as a kid, and when we first immigrated to this country I went to a 7-Eleven and for the first time in my life I saw... back in the day they had this little spinning comic book rack, and there were comic books and I was basically drawn to them.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I always loved watching films. I've always been active, pretending I was a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle. I remember watching 'Toy Story.' I think that was one of my first movies.

I grew up with 'The Little Rascals' and always try to work a link into every one of my movies.

Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.