Beat Quote by Corey Taylor

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner…

— Stephen Gaghan

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high…

— Philipp Meyer

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

I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had…

— Tom Robbins

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula' and World…

— Barry Keoghan