Firsts Quote by Dave Eggers

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the…

— Frank Lampard

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence…

— Paul Di Filippo

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

“It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.”

— Danny Brassell

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The…

— Erin Morgenstern

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came…

— Henning Mankell

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I…

— Khaled Hosseini

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how…

— Roald Dahl

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

— Kevin Young

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

— Rob Sheffield