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I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.


Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.


Phil LaMarr
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
Kathryn Harrison
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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Harvey Pekar
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I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.
Jose Saramago
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Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.


Lee Byung-hun
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
Jody Williams
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.


Harvey Pekar
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I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
Raymond E. Feist
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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.


Billy Idol
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That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
Todd McFarlane
I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.
Seth
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.


Gerard Way
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore
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I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.


Ty Simpkins
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Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
Mickey Spillane
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
Katee Sackhoff
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks