Books Quote by Emily Watson

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

— Emily Watson

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot…

— Stephen Rea

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

— Claire Tomalin

I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob.

— Robert Englund

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

— A. S. Byatt

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

— Hilary Hahn

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central…

— Chris Ware

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

— Robert Redford

Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did…

— Shiloh Fernandez

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and…

— Joss Whedon

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

— Ralph Fiennes

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

— Jim Rash