Accurate Quote by John Ruskin

My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me…

— Don Rickles

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental…

— Ashraf Ghani

I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no…

— Craig Ferguson

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara…

— Virginia Henley

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful…

— Elizabeth Strout

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very…

— Andrew Wyeth

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work.…

— John H. Johnson

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go…

— Rob Thomas