I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
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LEIGHTON MEESTER I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
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MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
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GARTH NIX I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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CATHLEEN SCHINE I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.
DREW DAYWALT I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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MARY POPE OSBORNE I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passion...
JOSH KEATON I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
OSCAR LEVANT I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
OSCAR LEVANT I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.
CHANTAL AKERMAN I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
OSCAR LEVANT Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books ma...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgi...
ALEXANDER KOCH I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too...
TANA FRENCH I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
EMILY WATSON I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I cou...
BEN PEEK I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprintin...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet...
DANIEL SILVA I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea...
MICHIO KAKU I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
HALSTON SAGE I love books.
I enjoyed reading.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
MARK TWAIN I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see...
MICHAEL PENA My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm...
JACK PRELUTSKY I was a librarian years ago, and I really liked reading the fun books (to kids) because the kids wou...
CHARLIE WILLIAMS I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '...
BILL BRYSON I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
MARKUS HERZ I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the s...
NICK HARKAWAY Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di...
DACIA MARAINI If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you ...
JOE QUEENAN I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.
COLLEEN HOOVER I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was...
CHARLIZE THERON I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... ...
NICOLAS CAGE I love reading books that can break my heart.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her ...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading ha...
RAINA TELGEMEIER Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
ANNIE BARROWS Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
MARY ANN SHAFFER I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose coun...
JACQUELINE WILSON I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we h...
SAMANTHA BEE I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information a...
HILLARY CLINTON I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOHN WOODEN Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you alw...
MARK HELPRIN So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I always seem to be reading several books at once.
DREW GILPIN FAUST An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other ti...
JEN CAMPBELL When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
HENNY YOUNGMAN When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
HENRY YOUNGMAN I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ...
COREY TAYLOR I know the mind of ancient souls by reading ancient books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
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PAXTON HOOD Reading books is like wearing winter clothes; it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul.
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JAKE EPSTEIN Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...
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