Age Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation,…

— Stephen Hunter

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

— Henry Louis Gates

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

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

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken