Books Quote by John Brandon

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to…

— Penelope Lively

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries.…

— Josh Lieb

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

— Kate DiCamillo

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards,…

— Frederick William Robertson

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

— David Grann

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to…

— Patrick Ness

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher