"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."

Age, Dad, Books

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"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."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you."

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"Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could."

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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."

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