Books Quote by Patrick deWitt

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

— Hayley Atwell

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the…

— Damon Lindelof

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

— Nathan Parsons

I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.

— Wu Cheng'en

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

— Chinua Achebe

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

— Neil Gaiman

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we…

— Edwidge Danticat

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all…

— Rachel Nichols

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

— Joshuah Bearman