Book Quote by Matt de la Pena

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get…

— John Krasinski

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful…

— Edmund White

Of all things, I liked books best.

— Nikola Tesla

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware…

— Jesmyn Ward

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of…

— Stephen K. Amos

It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated,…

— Kehinde Wiley

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

— Adriana Trigiani

The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

— Sabaa Tahir

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.

— Jennifer Egan

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