Books Quote by David Harsanyi

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

— Rand Paul

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

— Clarence Thomas

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.

— Manisha Koirala

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

— Peter Davison

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and…

— Sarah Waters

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

— John Debney

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

— Melissa Gilbert

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was…

— Dee Rees

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was…

— Leni Zumas

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

Madonna taught me more philosophy than Ayn Rand.

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery