Book Quote by Nat Hentoff

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I…

— Louis L'Amour

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books…

— Mike Greenberg

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14,…

— Jay McInerney

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in…

— Maeve Binchy

Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to…

— Shannon Hale

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

— Tom T. Hall

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his…

— Edward Hirsch

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

— Candace Bushnell

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

— Pete Townshend