Book Quote by Richard Ford

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

— Mitt Romney

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I have always been into reading serious material.

— Suhasini Mulay

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

— Steven Cojocaru

I don't read many young adult books.

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

— Robert Jay Lifton

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high…

— James Patterson

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

— Pete Wentz