Brooklyn Quote by Robert Nozick

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my…

— Dallas Willard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary.…

— Tom Stoppard

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked…

— Cynthia Voigt

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark…

— Lev Grossman

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

— Ruskin Bond

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you…

— William Faulkner

“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from school reading…

— Audrey Niffenegger

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to…

— Samantha Shannon

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of…

— Lauren DeStefano

The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old:…

— Conan Stevens