We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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The more she delves into science, the more she knows ... TOM SHADYAC I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b... FRANCINE PASCAL You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and sa... BETH BRODERICK My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. MARK E. SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ... SOPHIE KINSELLA I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is ... JON FAVREAU Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun... CHARLES SOULE I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', ... MAMIE GUMMER I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman... DENIS O'HARE I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... JOHN LE CARRE Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was dest... GO AH-SUNG I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do,... KATE JACKSON When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be... DOROTHY ALLISON My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what wa... NATASHA TRETHEWEY It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi... ELIZA COUPE When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period whe... ROB REINER I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ... NINA DOBREV Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN 'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, s... ERIC SCHLOSSER Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness o... CIARAN HINDS My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long... SHERMAN ALEXIE I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have... ALEXANDRA SHIPP I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That... BETTY WHITE I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. 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YUNJIN KIM In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of... J. D. SOUTHER When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favor... OLIVIA HOLT The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol... DOUGLAS BRUNT My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I sti... EMILIE DE RAVIN I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve... EDAN LEPUCKI I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo... KAMALA HARRIS I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling ab... RUTINA WESLEY My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before t... BEVERLY CLEARY Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, 'The Wonderfu... SCOTT BAKULA I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of... LEV GROSSMAN If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day... CESAR ROMERO I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In ter... ED HARRIS I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga... QUAVO My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, ... JOSH DUHAMEL 'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, ... LAURA BELL BUNDY When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was... KATHRYN HARRISON 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo... LIBBA BRAY As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to... DARBY STANCHFIELD Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first tim... LEA MICHELE Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brow... CHRIS STOKES My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ... CHELSEA CLINTON People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm l... LAURA HARRIER I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav... EDDIE CAMPBELL When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I di... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wr... CHERYL TIEGS The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 1... CONAN STEVENS One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.' MIKE POMPEO Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and i... NIKKI REED I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I could... MAHESH BABU It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.... UTKARSH AMBUDKAR As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. Wh... WILLIAM SANDERSON Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex... JOHN MELLENCAMP I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in... ROB LOWE It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ... CALISTA FLOCKHART
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