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ADAM CHRISTOPHER My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...
ANNE RICE Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
ROALD DAHL![]()
I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
WILLIAM SHATNER There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD![]()
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi...
DAVE EGGERS![]()
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
CORY DOCTOROW I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgi...
ALEXANDER KOCH I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.'...
DARREN SHAN This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
ROALD DAHL My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
ROALD DAHL You chose books. I chose looks.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ...
COREY TAYLOR I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
CATHLEEN SCHINE![]()
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of ...
LEIGHTON MEESTER Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN![]()
There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it's someone else's.
CLIVE BARKER![]()
And Quaid knew, meeting the clown's vacant stare through an air turned bloody, that
there was w...
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Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.
CLIVE BARKER I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I ...
DAVID SMALL When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful...
DAVID WALLIAMS![]()
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my...
MICHIO KAKU![]()
Fakat artık dünyanın ne olduğunu biliyordu: Özgürlüğün sınırsızlığıyla kuşatılmış...
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the...
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ...
DAVID S. GOYER I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS![]()
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my fav...
PAUL CLEAVE I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfictio...
GAIL TORACINTA![]()
Decker pulled the mask on. It smelt of his excitement. As soon as he breathed in he got a hard. Not ...
CLIVE BARKER Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time r...
PETER MORGAN 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 I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
CHAD LINDBERG![]()
Is everything normal now?”
“Well he hasn’t got religious mania, and he isn’t running a...
ISAAC ASIMOV I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.
CHANTAL AKERMAN Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
PETER STRAUB Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
SALVOR HARDIN![]()
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL![]()
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
SOPHIE ALDRED Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
MICKEY SPILLANE There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
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I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you&#...
BERTIE CARVEL![]()
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing ...
ROALD DAHL![]()
Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In ...
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
Quien se cree sin mácula se hace aborrecible
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable,...
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
What lasts in the reader’s mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tea...
ISAAC ASIMOV![]()
When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I w...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.
NNEDI OKORAFOR There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mi...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted...
NNEDI OKORAFOR It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black h...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
NNEDI OKORAFOR I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Two footsteps do not make a path.
NNEDI OKORAFOR Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on ...
NNEDI OKORAFOR To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...
NNEDI OKORAFOR![]()
However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the...
CLIVE BARKER My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
ALEXANDER KOCH![]()
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn...
GARTH NIX![]()
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizz...
ROALD DAHL My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them i...
JON SCIESZKA I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
CLIVE CUSSLER My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaa...
BRUCE FEILER![]()
Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser enten...
ISAAC ASIMOV I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantas...
ROBERT KAZINSKY I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE Science is not about what’s true. It’s about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can ...
LEE SMOLIN Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,
STEVE RELFORD![]()
Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of ...
CORNELIA FUNKE A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
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I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale...
GUY FIERI![]()
Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, a...
DAVID HAREWOOD![]()
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter&...
REGINA BRETT![]()
For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King'...
GINA BARRECA Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents...
NATHAN FILLION I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I thin...
YASMINE AL MASRI![]()
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo...
BARRY EISLER![]()
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
ANONYMOUS Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a te...
ROALD DAHL![]()
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
MIKE MYERS I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while ...
JAMES ROLLINS![]()
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen...
COREY TAYLOR 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vib...
PATRICK LUSSIER![]()
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
OSCAR LEVANT I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I cou...
BEN PEEK![]()
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
CORY DOCTOROW![]()
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ...
ISAAC ASIMOV My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY![]()
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight...
C.S. LEWIS
ADAM CHRISTOPHER My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
MICHAEL EASTON
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur... ANNE RICE Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
ROALD DAHL
I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. WILLIAM SHATNER There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi... DAVE EGGERS
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. CORY DOCTOROW I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgi...
ALEXANDER KOCH I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.'...
DARREN SHAN This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
ROALD DAHL My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
ROALD DAHL You chose books. I chose looks.
ROALD DAHL
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ... COREY TAYLOR I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
CATHLEEN SCHINE
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of ... LEIGHTON MEESTER Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN
There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it's someone else's. CLIVE BARKER
And Quaid knew, meeting the clown's vacant stare through an air turned bloody, thatthere was w...
CLIVE BARKER
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. CLIVE BARKER I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I ...
DAVID SMALL When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful...
DAVID WALLIAMS
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my... MICHIO KAKU
Fakat artık dünyanın ne olduğunu biliyordu: Özgürlüğün sınırsızlığıyla kuşatılmış... ISAAC ASIMOV
Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the... ISAAC ASIMOV
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... DAVID S. GOYER I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET EASTON ELLIS There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my fav...
PAUL CLEAVE I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfictio...
GAIL TORACINTA
Decker pulled the mask on. It smelt of his excitement. As soon as he breathed in he got a hard. Not ... CLIVE BARKER Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time r...
PETER MORGAN 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 I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
CHAD LINDBERG
Is everything normal now?”“Well he hasn’t got religious mania, and he isn’t running a...
ISAAC ASIMOV I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.
CHANTAL AKERMAN Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
PETER STRAUB Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
SALVOR HARDIN
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b... FRANCINE PASCAL
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ... DON ROFF I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
SOPHIE ALDRED Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
MICKEY SPILLANE There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you&#... BERTIE CARVEL
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ... SOPHIE KINSELLA With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing ...
ROALD DAHL
Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In ... ISAAC ASIMOV
Quien se cree sin mácula se hace aborrecible ISAAC ASIMOV
Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable,... ISAAC ASIMOV
What lasts in the reader’s mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tea... ISAAC ASIMOV
When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I w... ERIN MORGENSTERN I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.
NNEDI OKORAFOR There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mi...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted...
NNEDI OKORAFOR It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black h...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
NNEDI OKORAFOR I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Two footsteps do not make a path.
NNEDI OKORAFOR Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on ...
NNEDI OKORAFOR To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the... CLIVE BARKER My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
ALEXANDER KOCH
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn... GARTH NIX
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. JACKSON BROWNE A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizz...
ROALD DAHL My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them i...
JON SCIESZKA I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
CLIVE CUSSLER My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaa...
BRUCE FEILER
Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser enten... ISAAC ASIMOV I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantas...
ROBERT KAZINSKY I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE Science is not about what’s true. It’s about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can ...
LEE SMOLIN Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,
STEVE RELFORD
Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e... DEYTH BANGER
believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of ... CORNELIA FUNKE A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale... GUY FIERI
Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, a... DAVID HAREWOOD
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter&... REGINA BRETT
For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King'... GINA BARRECA Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents...
NATHAN FILLION I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I thin...
YASMINE AL MASRI
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo... BARRY EISLER
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. ANONYMOUS Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a te...
ROALD DAHL
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers. MIKE MYERS I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while ...
JAMES ROLLINS
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen... COREY TAYLOR 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vib...
PATRICK LUSSIER
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. OSCAR LEVANT I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I cou...
BEN PEEK
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. CORY DOCTOROW
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ... ISAAC ASIMOV My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight... C.S. LEWIS
