Books Quote by Fiona Barton

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

“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 lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of…

— Susan Wiggs

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

— Edward Abbey

I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

— Amitava Kumar

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

— Salman Rushdie

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

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.

— Jeff Giles

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you…

— William Faulkner

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.

— Paul Dano