Always Quote by John Irving

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not…

— Asin

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned…

— Twyla Tharp

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned,…

— Vladimir Putin

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a…

— Alex Haley

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back.…

— Hilary Mantel

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was…

— Gary Kemp

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from…

— Ashwin Sanghi