Book Quote by Max Brooks

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I…

— Ned Beauman

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was…

— Stellan Skarsgard

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the…

— Alejandro Amenabar

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin

I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I could really…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

— Brett Ratner

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked…

— Cynthia Voigt

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.

— Nigel Lythgoe

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also…

— Alison Bechdel

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie…

— Sophie Kinsella