Basically Quote by Stephan Pastis

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

— Stephan Pastis

Honestly, I grew up a huge Peanuts fan.

— Tom King

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

— Stephen Tobolowsky

I was very excited, but I didn't really think I could get the work in 'Peanuts.' Still, I really, really wanted it, because I…

— Noah Schnapp

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

— Nat Hentoff

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

“ 'It's hard to come by peanuts that crack so nice and crisp,' said J.”

— Haruki Murakami

I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.

— Wu Cheng'en

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

I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in one scene…

— Laura Moriarty

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

— Nicholas Sparks