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We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

— Jessica Hagedorn

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

— Daniel Clowes

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

— Bjork

My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was 'Family Ties' and 'Roseanne' and 'Growing Pains' and 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Golden Girls.' I mean, I watched everything.

— Simon Helberg

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

— Len Wein

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

— Terry Brooks

I was into comic books as a kid.

— Len Wiseman

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

— Edward Norton

We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

— Jane Hamilton

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

— Mako

✗Opposing Perspectives

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

— Chris Ware