Books Quote by Curt Smith

And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling…

— John D'Agata

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in…

— Jason Reynolds

I was reading some Raymond Carver. I really liked how he did that 'slice of life' thing. Because I'm not much of a reader…

— Limmy

“I went to Audible.com and picked up books from my favorite authors! I selected the book I wanted, the first one of which was,…

— Caroline Porter Thomas

I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably…

— D. B. Weiss

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should…

— Charles Bock

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

— Suzanne Collins

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at…

— Samuel Johnson

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and…

— Laura van den Berg

My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading…

— Debra Granik

“I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent genius. I…

— Spider Robinson