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AJAY MEHTA![]()
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN 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've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I ...
DAVID SMALL![]()
By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the per...
MARK TWAIN Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was e...
ROBERT GIROUX 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 My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when h...
ROALD DAHL![]()
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi...
DAVE EGGERS![]()
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
DAVID JOHANSEN I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR![]()
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...
BENJAMIN P. HARDY![]()
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing ...
ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
ROALD DAHL This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
ROALD DAHL He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.
NOORILHUDA![]()
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG![]()
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
ADELAIDE CLEMENS![]()
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solem...
PAUL DI FILIPPO![]()
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you&#...
BERTIE CARVEL I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful...
DAVID WALLIAMS![]()
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 If (the driver) would have stopped, he could have helped my father-in-law. He always worked hard. He...
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ That was my Norwegian grandmother's.
TAMMY HARTY'S When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is...
JULIO IGLESIAS There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD![]()
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything...
JOHN MARSHALL![]()
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
MIKE MYERS My first roommate was from Hong Kong and spoke perfect English. He also spoke Mandarin and Cantonese...
CHERYL BAKER![]()
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own ...
C.S. LEWIS![]()
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He ...
ALLY CONDIE![]()
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ...
JACKIE CHAN![]()
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER![]()
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat...
DONALD TRUMP I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita ...
ROALD DAHL My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
OSCAR TAVERAS![]()
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto...
SHERRI SHEPHERD When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his s...
EDWARD CARPENTER![]()
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS![]()
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB![]()
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL![]()
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.'...
SARAH KOENIG![]()
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m...
FRANCIS CAPRA![]()
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig...
TERRY WOGAN He felt that the children brought him great pleasure. His daughter, who is a dancer and choreographe...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ Even though my father never made millions of dollars, he was rich in so many ways. He seemed so cont...
JAMES DOYLE![]()
I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call N...
BETTY WHITE![]()
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my bo...
JEANIENE FROST Being the father he was, he just comforted his son in his time of need.
BILL LYNCH I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS![]()
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ Much of his poetry would come from something happening inside of him. It was always something that h...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ![]()
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON![]()
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life....
APOLO OHNO [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was kno...
AJAY MEHTA It is my biggest dream in life to visit his tomb. I was happy to hear he died so he can go and visit...
HENRY ADAMCZYK![]()
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic...
HILLARY CLINTON![]()
The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different...
HELEN OYEYEMI![]()
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ...
DAVID SOUL![]()
My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
DENIS LEARY![]()
My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. H...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA![]()
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.
ABHIJIT NASKAR![]()
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is...
DANNY DEVITO He read it off the bat well, played it well and he was in perfect position. When it was off the bat,...
MARK VOGEL![]()
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
PAUL LYNDE![]()
That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my fat...
VANESSA HUDGENS![]()
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventua...
JORGE LUIS BORGES![]()
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas ...
CHINUA ACHEBE Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin...
LUZ MARTINEZ![]()
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father a...
RENE AUBERJONOIS![]()
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ...
MALCOLM X English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in...
IAN HARDING My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins whe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the A...
ANTONYA NELSON![]()
Do you remember one year when that player - Leeroy something - actually got drafted into the Stormch...
MARIE LU He was always like a father to me,
CARROLL BAKER![]()
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape...
ROBERT HARRIS I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY![]()
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable...
JOYCE MEYER He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE![]()
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic id...
CHINUA ACHEBE The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS![]()
The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET EASTON ELLIS![]()
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule...
THURGOOD MARSHALL![]()
He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiec...
VICTOR HUGO My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He ...
WILLIAM BALDWIN
AJAY MEHTA
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec... MARK TWAIN 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've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I ...
DAVID SMALL
By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the per... MARK TWAIN Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was e...
ROBERT GIROUX 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 My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when h...
ROALD DAHL
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi... DAVE EGGERS
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. DAVID JOHANSEN I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ... DON ROFF And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...
BENJAMIN P. HARDY
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. BRODERICK CRAWFORD With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing ...
ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
ROALD DAHL This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
ROALD DAHL He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.
NOORILHUDA
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ... SOPHIE KINSELLA Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
ADELAIDE CLEMENS
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solem... PAUL DI FILIPPO
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you&#... BERTIE CARVEL I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful...
DAVID WALLIAMS
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 If (the driver) would have stopped, he could have helped my father-in-law. He always worked hard. He...
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ That was my Norwegian grandmother's.
TAMMY HARTY'S When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is...
JULIO IGLESIAS There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything... JOHN MARSHALL
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. MIKE MYERS My first roommate was from Hong Kong and spoke perfect English. He also spoke Mandarin and Cantonese...
CHERYL BAKER
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own ... C.S. LEWIS
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He ... ALLY CONDIE
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita ...
ROALD DAHL My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
OSCAR TAVERAS
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his s...
EDWARD CARPENTER
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.'...
SARAH KOENIG
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m... FRANCIS CAPRA
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... TERRY WOGAN He felt that the children brought him great pleasure. His daughter, who is a dancer and choreographe...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ Even though my father never made millions of dollars, he was rich in so many ways. He seemed so cont...
JAMES DOYLE
I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call N... BETTY WHITE
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my bo... JEANIENE FROST Being the father he was, he just comforted his son in his time of need.
BILL LYNCH I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus... ANTHONY HOROWITZ Much of his poetry would come from something happening inside of him. It was always something that h...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous... NIGEL HAMILTON
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was kno...
AJAY MEHTA It is my biggest dream in life to visit his tomb. I was happy to hear he died so he can go and visit...
HENRY ADAMCZYK
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic... HILLARY CLINTON
The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different... HELEN OYEYEMI
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL
My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. DENIS LEARY
My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. H... PRIYANKA CHOPRA
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend. ABHIJIT NASKAR
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is... DANNY DEVITO He read it off the bat well, played it well and he was in perfect position. When it was off the bat,...
MARK VOGEL
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business. PAUL LYNDE
That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my fat... VANESSA HUDGENS
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventua... JORGE LUIS BORGES
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas ... CHINUA ACHEBE Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin...
LUZ MARTINEZ
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father a... RENE AUBERJONOIS
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ... MALCOLM X English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in...
IAN HARDING My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins whe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the A...
ANTONYA NELSON
Do you remember one year when that player - Leeroy something - actually got drafted into the Stormch... MARIE LU He was always like a father to me,
CARROLL BAKER
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape... ROBERT HARRIS I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable... JOYCE MEYER He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic id... CHINUA ACHEBE The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS
The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy... BRET EASTON ELLIS
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL
He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiec... VICTOR HUGO My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He ...
WILLIAM BALDWIN
