Adolescence Quote by Anonymous

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

— Flying Lotus

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

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt…

— Richard Matheson

Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge…

— Pamela Anderson

Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

— Chinua Achebe

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons…

— Deborah Harkness

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

— Drummond Money-Coutts

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely…

— Patrick deWitt

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on…

— Bozoma Saint John

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon