Books Quote by Jack Hemingway

I've never read one book about my father.

— Ziggy Marley

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

— John le Carre

People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

— Pat Conroy

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother…

— Peter Carey

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way…

— Karin Slaughter

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

— Dimebag Darrell

I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books - he…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel