Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

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

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

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

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

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.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

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

My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason.

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.