Active Quote by Andrew Wyeth

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very…

— Andrew Wyeth

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and…

— Sarah Waters

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes…

— Ian Mcewan

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone…

— Autumn Reeser

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often…

— Cynthia Voigt

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant