Brought Quote by Evangeline Lilly

I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was…

— Evangeline Lilly

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

— Michael Chabon

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks…

— Orson Bean

I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.

— Joe Russo

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz…

— Bob Peterson

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

— Elijah Wood

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

— Jim Cornette

“children were still young of inventing and telling orally, sometimes of writing down, ‘children’s stories’ for their private amusement… The Hobbit was intended to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

— Neil Gaiman

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

— William Gurstelle

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

— Michael Shanks

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

— Joseph Barbera