About Quote by Jack McDevitt

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Funny enough, I don't really recall being read kids' books as a child. I think my truly favorite thing to do was flipping through…

— Julio Torres

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

— Karin Slaughter

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to…

— James Patterson

“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier and deeper…

— Raven Black

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other…

— Thomas Steinbeck

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

— Jennie Garth

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their…

— Eckhart Tolle

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a…

— James Hillman

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web…

— Helen Vendler