Born Quote by Luanne Rice

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a…

— Tess Gerritsen

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

— Charles Stross

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

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

— Laurie R. King

“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through…

— Siri Hustvedt

I was a librarian.

— Beverly Cleary

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

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

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a…

— David Nicholls

I spent my life in the library reading books.

— Michael Caine

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

— Karin Slaughter

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

— Michael Caine