Books Quote by Rachel Joyce

My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the…

— Karin Slaughter

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather…

— Neil Cross

I was quite an odd child. We grew up in the middle of nowhere in Northumberland - it was lovely, idyllic, but we had…

— Alexander Armstrong

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

— David Bowie

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were…

— David Hasselhoff

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those…

— Alex Wagner

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went…

— Sheri L. Dew

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

— Stuart Franklin

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in…

— Nat Hentoff

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I…

— Bat for Lashes

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for…

— Bharati Mukherjee