Books Quote by Alice Roberts

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run…

— Robin Furth

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

I used to like Dick Francis novels as a kid, who was like Enid Blyton but based around horses, and he'd write about the…

— Bez

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of…

— Michael Connelly

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who…

— Vladimir Putin

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

— Ludivine Sagnier

“i love swimming it is my main hobby and i love reading singing !!!”

— Vanessa Curtis

'Rainwater' was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It's set in the Great Depression and based on an…

— Sandra Brown

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to…

— Terry Brooks

I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our…

— Joe Quirk

I like underwater life.

— Hayao Miyazaki

“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples are David…

— Edward O. Wilson