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ABHISHEK BACHCHAN![]()
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &...
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KATHRYN HARRISON![]()
In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil f...
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PHILIP K. DICK I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
MALLORY ORTBERG I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK![]()
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At...
CONOR OBERST The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
CHANEL IMAN![]()
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writi...
GEORGE STEPHEN I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.
CAROL ALT I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort ...
WIL WHEATON But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of...
GEORG BRANDES![]()
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS [When the magazine hit the stands,] The first picture I saw was Kim wearing my son's mink coat, hold...
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE![]()
When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
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PHILIP K. DICK Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creati...
DICK DALE Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about...
TED CHIANG![]()
My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD![]()
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN![]()
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
JOHN UPDIKE![]()
When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturd...
ROBERT ENGLUND I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-eve...
ELIZE DU TOIT I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guard...
RICHARD BURTON I have never been more terrified in my life than when Dick Cheney whipped out that gun. I was sure I...
DAVID GREGORY![]()
The problem is that literalization everything said!
For example Philip Dick.........,
whe...
DEYTH BANGER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I w...
ANNIE DILLARD Do I think people will read 'Moby Dick' on their computers? No.
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UDAY KIRAN![]()
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it t...
ANN AGUIRRE I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first...
ELIZE DU TOIT I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON![]()
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
DOROTHY ALLISON![]()
My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, c...
EZRA MILLER I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG![]()
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ...
VICTOR GARBER![]()
When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussio...
TONY HAWK When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR.![]()
I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time.
LUKE MACFARLANE I guess my first reaction was 'Ask not what you can do for your cousin but what you can do for his m...
JOSEPH KENNEDY One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a we...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the pa...
CELIA IMRIE![]()
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor...
LORDE![]()
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh...
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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI![]()
One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days a...
DYLAN THOMAS![]()
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show...
TED DANSON![]()
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
GARY VAYNERCHUK![]()
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT![]()
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. ...
SPENCER BOLDMAN I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.
CHINGY One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH![]()
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then...
TOM DRURY So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a hug...
DUNCAN SHEIK I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said th...
DICK DALE![]()
When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.
SIMONE SIGNORET As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Bab...
SHERIDAN SMITH I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even ...
DANE COOK![]()
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going ...
MACKENZIE DAVIS I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduc...
RASHID JOHNSON![]()
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON![]()
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ad...
KATE KLISE![]()
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first -- and the other 2% are lyin...
DAVID REMNICK![]()
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying...
DAVID REMNICK Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
ALAN CUMMING![]()
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be...
JEFF BUCKLEY I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM I wrote my first play when I was eight.
PAM GEMS I made my first movie when I was five.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN I was 40 when I did my first movie.
DANNY AIELLO I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER![]()
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because ...
LINDA GRANT![]()
When I first read the Eddie Lowery connection in the script, I thought this scenario was created bec...
BILL PAXTON![]()
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When...
SAM SHEPARD![]()
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated an...
EDWARD SAID![]()
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I want...
JULIE DELPY![]()
I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment...
GAIL DEVERS![]()
I remember when we were on 'Dick Cavett'!
JOHN LENNON![]()
When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all t...
RYAN GOSLING![]()
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at scho...
ANITA DESAI![]()
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi...
DAVE EGGERS I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
GLEN CAMPBELL![]()
I got my first handgun license when I was 22.
MIRANDA LAMBERT I made my first complete song when I was 9.
LUDACRIS I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE![]()
When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I met Mike in the fifth grade and started making music when we were about twelve, and the first song...
GREEN DAY![]()
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class...
EUGENE IONESCO When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and somethi...
MARV LEVY
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &... MATT GROENING When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was...
KATHRYN HARRISON
In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil f... GREGORY BENFORD I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY Consciousness of unconsciousness
PHILIP K. DICK I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
MALLORY ORTBERG I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... CONOR OBERST The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
CHANEL IMAN
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. DAVID CASSIDY When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writi...
GEORGE STEPHEN I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.
CAROL ALT I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort ...
WIL WHEATON But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of...
GEORG BRANDES
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. HARRIET ANN JACOBS [When the magazine hit the stands,] The first picture I saw was Kim wearing my son's mink coat, hold...
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE
When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful. EDDIE REDMAYNE I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creati...
DICK DALE Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about...
TED CHIANG
My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer. CARRIE UNDERWOOD
When I was born I owed twelve dollars. GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. JOHN UPDIKE
When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturd... ROBERT ENGLUND I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-eve...
ELIZE DU TOIT I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guard...
RICHARD BURTON I have never been more terrified in my life than when Dick Cheney whipped out that gun. I was sure I...
DAVID GREGORY
The problem is that literalization everything said!For example Philip Dick.........,
whe...
DEYTH BANGER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I w... ANNIE DILLARD Do I think people will read 'Moby Dick' on their computers? No.
DANIELLE TIEDT I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it t... ANN AGUIRRE I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first...
ELIZE DU TOIT I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. DOROTHY ALLISON
My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, c... EZRA MILLER I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo... GERARD BUTLER When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ...
VICTOR GARBER
When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussio... TONY HAWK When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR.
I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time. LUKE MACFARLANE I guess my first reaction was 'Ask not what you can do for your cousin but what you can do for his m...
JOSEPH KENNEDY One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'
MIKE POMPEO
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a we... GARTH RISK HALLBERG My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the pa...
CELIA IMRIE
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor... LORDE
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh... WALTER DEAN MYERS
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days a... DYLAN THOMAS
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show... TED DANSON
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. GARY VAYNERCHUK
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. ... SPENCER BOLDMAN I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.
CHINGY One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then... TOM DRURY So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a hug...
DUNCAN SHEIK I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said th...
DICK DALE
When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine. SIMONE SIGNORET As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Bab...
SHERIDAN SMITH I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even ...
DANE COOK
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until... ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going ...
MACKENZIE DAVIS I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduc...
RASHID JOHNSON
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. TONI MORRISON
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ad... KATE KLISE
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first -- and the other 2% are lyin... DAVID REMNICK
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying... DAVID REMNICK Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
ALAN CUMMING
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM I wrote my first play when I was eight.
PAM GEMS I made my first movie when I was five.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN I was 40 when I did my first movie.
DANNY AIELLO I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because ... LINDA GRANT
When I first read the Eddie Lowery connection in the script, I thought this scenario was created bec... BILL PAXTON
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When... SAM SHEPARD
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated an... EDWARD SAID
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I want... JULIE DELPY
I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment... GAIL DEVERS
I remember when we were on 'Dick Cavett'! JOHN LENNON
When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all t... RYAN GOSLING
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at scho... ANITA DESAI
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi... DAVE EGGERS I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
GLEN CAMPBELL
I got my first handgun license when I was 22. MIRANDA LAMBERT I made my first complete song when I was 9.
LUDACRIS I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE
When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I... GARY VAYNERCHUK I met Mike in the fifth grade and started making music when we were about twelve, and the first song...
GREEN DAY
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class... EUGENE IONESCO When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and somethi...
MARV LEVY
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... 
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. 
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... 
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. 
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... 
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... 
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... 
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion 
All this, and Heaven too! 
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... 
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y... 
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. 
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w... 
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ... 
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un... 
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru... 
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina... 