Age Quote by Pierre Berge

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

— Sue Perkins

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned…

— Twyla Tharp

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young…

— John Boyne

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

— Stephenie Meyer

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I…

— Ned Beauman

Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.'…

— Cheryl Mendelson

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five,…

— Chris Abani

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my…

— Stephen King