Books Quote by Michael Dirda

That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was…

— Stan Lee

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

— Philip Pullman

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a…

— Michael Dirda

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

— Joss Whedon

I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore,"…

— Trina Robbins

As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we…

— Neal Adams

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.'…

— Chadwick Boseman

I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

— Mark Waid

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

— Rita Rudner

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books…

— Len Wein

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books…

— James Gunn

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

— Candice Patton