Childhood Interests Quotes

I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.

I was a weird kid. I loved music, and I loved reading about God.

I remember as a kid liking long, funny words. And often being into things like that can be perceived as square. But actually, as we know now that we're adults, it's really cool. The more knowledge you have, the better.

When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.

I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the Bruce Lee movies.

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.

I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.