Be happy Quote by Candace Bushnell

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back.…

— Hilary Mantel

“The charm of your writing,” Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, “depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter and literary…

— Nancy Mitford

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that…

— Carol Windley

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful…

— Judy Blume

I think I was a child at 12-years-old, which seems amazing today.

— Celine Sciamma

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

— John Rocha

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times,…

— Leila Slimani

I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the…

— T.C. Boyle

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the…

— Margaret Haddix

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

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that…

— Ellen Potter

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was…

— Patti Smith