About Quote by Jonathan Kozol

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and…

— Sara Sheridan

The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school,…

— Barry McGee

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of…

— Misha Green

It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It…

— Jason Reynolds

Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I…

— Caroline Lawrence

The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land. It defined…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

After having struggled through some close friends' and family members' battles with cancer, I wanted to create an American drama about the experience of…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry—English, Russian and French—than in any other…

— Vladimir Nabokov