About Quote by Dean Karnazes

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

— Ranulph Fiennes

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to…

— Terry Brooks

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great…

— Steven Wright

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

— Meg Cabot

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who…

— Vladimir Putin

There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having…

— E. L. Doctorow

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the…

— Steve Pemberton

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world…

— Tim Winton

I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, 'The Ultimate…

— Christopher Moore

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin…

— Joe Abercrombie