Book Quote by Nicholas Lea

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything…

— Pat Barker

I am a museum curator when I am not on the television and in our collection at Kensington Palace we have a book like…

— Lucy Worsley

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

— Gabrielle Zevin

My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and…

— Mary Beard

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try…

— Elsa Maxwell

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a…

— John Hume

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only…

— Robert Barry

Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the…

— David Lammy

My favourite museum is the British Museum.

— Felipe Anderson

“That of the British Museum Reading-room,’ explained Jasper; ‘known to some of us as the valley of the shadow of books. People who often…

— George Gissing

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

— Claire Foy

My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every…

— Sue Perkins