College Quote by Barack Obama

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great…

— Steven Wright

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could…

— Shane Carruth

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the…

— Meg Cabot

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I…

— William Everson

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a…

— Rebecca Solnit

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,…

— Alison Sudol

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift…

— Michiko Kakutani