We learned about life from the books they told us not to…

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

— Dylan Thomas

There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian…

— Nina Jacobson

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And…

— Hisham Matar

“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me…

— Trista Day

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

“Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some…

— Ruth Brandon

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books…

— Michael Rosen

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good.…

— Helen Dunmore

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind…

— Terry Pratchett

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Ann Porter

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power.…

— Thomas de Quincey

For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and…

— Anonymous

Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two…

— Bret Lott

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

— Whoopi Goldberg