Away Quote by Cynthia Ozick

I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader,…

— James Roday

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie…

— Sophie Kinsella

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I got into James Blake quite early, like when I was early teen, and that was really important for me.

— Mura Masa

When I was 6, my mother put me on a picnic table in front of the whole family and told me to do my…

— Eddie Griffin

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to…

— Paul Laffoley

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a…

— John Irving

My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my life and…

— Rebecca Serle

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit…

— Armistead Maupin

Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I…

— Rene Ricard

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was…

— Boris Becker

I was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster, I would look through these books in the library and dream about visiting Loch Ness one…

— Alex Hirsch