James Gunn Quotes

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

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

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.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

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 used to read comics when I was a kid.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

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

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 didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

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

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.