Books Quote by Neil Cross

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

— Vic Mensa

Some time after my dad came to live to London - when I was eight or nine - he sent for me, my mum…

— Leon Edwards

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I was born in Tower Hamlets in London Hospital, Mile End. I grew up in Stepney on a council estate and lived with my…

— Wes Streeting

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to…

— Philip Pullman

I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.

— Gavin Esler

I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate…

— David Olusoga

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

— Gloria Steinem

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf