My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
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Related No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu... JAMES BLAYLOCK A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b... FRANCINE PASCAL Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson. ISRAEL SHENKER With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I ca... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway... JANE BIRKIN The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me. TOM REISS Mealtime "A mousie squealing in a trap Woke me from my morning nap. Wasn... HENRY N. BEARD Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his p... CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ... WHIT STILLMAN TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE (RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reaso... STEPHEN R. DONALDSON The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to po... WILL HERMES Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr... JOSHUA COHEN I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ... DENISE SMITH I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ... IAN RANKIN I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. MAYA ANGELOU For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. WALTER JON WILLIAMS What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the... IMRE KERTESZ A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading... BORIS BECKER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I th... CARROT TOP When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally... TOM REISS Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot... UNKNOWN Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading... BORIS BECKER Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag... NANCY WERLIN The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Ro... ALFRED MOLINA Terry Fox was a hero to me when I was growing up. JASON COOPER I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto... SIDNEY SHELDON It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ... AIDAN GILLEN The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - b... WILL OLDHAM The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu... ROBERT PINSKY I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ... JR One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and disco... BEVERLY CLEARY Being born is a gift, dying is a pleasure ..living is the true adventure. - John Alexander T JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of th... FAY GODWIN Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ... STEVE-O The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times... BILLY COLLINS When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso... WILLIAM SANDERSON Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the histor... COLIN FARRELL A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know ... DAVE BRUBECK All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I w... TAYE DIGGS Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence... ALEXANDER DUMAS I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my... SHAUNA NIEQUIST What the heck kind of name was Sir? CHERISE SINCLAIR Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER I think it's a fun, redeeming story. You will go through love and drama and conflict and heartache a... CHARLES FELDMANN Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat. MAUREEN JOHNSON When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into pla... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 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. My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to t... J.K. ROWLING I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. IRIS JOHANSEN As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed... STEPHEN RODRICK The phone rang, and my wife answered it. She said Scott was on the phone, and she kind of mumbled a ... JIM HASLETT The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough albu... FAITH HILL When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it ... BRIAN ANDREAS TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. PIERRE DOS UTT Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with T... PETER V. BRETT I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. My style was impetuous, my defenses were im... MIKE TYSON When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of m... MARY FRANN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his ... JOHN AUBREY Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his ... JOHN AUBREY I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I al... ERIK LARSON AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the ... RHIANNA PRATCHETT The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted ... PETE HAMILL I feel like Fortier was just as instrumental in my daughter's execution as Terry Nichols and Tim McV... MARSHA KIGHT When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street,... MICKEY DREXLER There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There ... DREW HOUSTON He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY
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ALBERT BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me... MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d... PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th... PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th... PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty. PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun. GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo... RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter. GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. GWENDOLYN BROOKS First fight. Then fiddle. GWENDOLYN BROOKS What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem... GWENDOLYN BROOKS When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes... GWENDOLYN BROOKS A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t... GWENDOLYN BROOKS