Blake Quote by Benjamin Clementine

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

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

— Aravind Adiga

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

— Anthony Bourdain

I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously.

— Richard Bacon

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

— Umberto Eco

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

— Ruskin Bond

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a…

— Megan Fox

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago…

— Max Lucado

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

— Kelly Clarkson

I don't read loads of books, but I talk to and learn a lot from many different people I encounter and that's been completely…

— Ben Francis

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

— Arthur Conan Doyle