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Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom…

— John Burnside

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

— Sol LeWitt

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my…

— Petra Collins

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

— Vito Acconci

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my…

— Maurice Sendak

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody