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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Myself Hero Boy Movies

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

Always Soft Books Comic

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

Man Age Character Power

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

Words Always Interesting Soft

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

Love Friends Growing Up Doing

I love comic books. I just do.

Love Just Books Comic

I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists - you know, that I consult before I start every movie.

Guillermo del Toro

Art You Start Know

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Book Loved Think Action

I did not know much about 'Black Lightning' beforehand, but I always wanted to play a superhero. After getting the part, I went back and read the comic books.

Nafessa Williams

Black Know Back Play

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

World Three Books Comic

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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Life My Life Television Influence

I love comic books and I love anime.

Samuel L. Jackson

Love Books Comic I Love

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Childish Lazy Paint Books

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beautiful Me Culture People

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Culture Hip-Hop Through Vocabulary

People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Best Me People Perspective

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Best Imagination Your Image

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

People Sorry Feel Movies

Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fighting Never Important Know

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

History Long Sexism Books

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Fantasy Africa Books Malaysia

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

Moving On Science Father Weird

In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

James Patterson

Think Done Office Some

I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books.

Time Character Say Follow

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

Way Media Play Too Much

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.

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