Book Quote by Martha Nussbaum

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

— Sue Perkins

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting…

— Terry Pratchett

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the…

— Allen W. Wood

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to…

— Samantha Shannon