Amazing Quote by Ray Bradbury

At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the city. I…

— George Pelecanos

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

— Kate DiCamillo

“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a scheme of…

— Don Borchert

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came from that.…

— Frank Skinner

In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking…

— Ludovico Einaudi

Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust…

— Samuel R. Delany

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

— Margaret Atwood

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to…

— Donald E. Westlake

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from…

— William Gibson