Books Quote by Melanie Benjamin

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight…

— Peter Diamandis

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know…

— Adam Rapp

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories,…

— Michael Winter

“Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the…

— Steve Pemberton

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by…

— Pearl Cleage

Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of the Morning…

— Steven Rinella

“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they show us…

— Anne Lamott

I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books…

— Simon Rich

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had…

— Karin Slaughter

“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit.…

— Will Schwalbe

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

— Alain de Botton