I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a…

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the…

— J. G. Ballard

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't…

— Cressida Cowell

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature, the Official…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in…

— John Kendrick Bangs

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I…

— Jefferson Mays

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder,…

— Joe Bonamassa

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

— Helene Hanff

“He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e . He found things like croquet, cream…

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

— George Takei

All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

— Helene Hanff

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

— Terry Gilliam

“…though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their…

— Arundhati Roy

My father was never interested in anything outside England. He was an Anglophile who was interested in things that, in his mind, were quintessentially…

— Mark Getty