Books Quote by David Berman

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

— Edward P. Jones

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

— David Duchovny

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

— Emma Healey

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was…

— Gary Kemp

I've had kind of a nondescript college career.

— Kelvin Sampson

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

— Steve Wynn

When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization.

— Stacey Abrams