Book Quote by A. S. Byatt

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

— Jesse Lingard

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

— Neil Gaiman

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting…

— Enid Blyton

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.…

— John le Carre

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to,…

— Fran Lebowitz

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

— Jason Reynolds