Discovered Quote by Sherwood Smith

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but…

— Rian Johnson

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The…

— Erin Morgenstern

I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for…

— Bridget Carpenter

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as…

— Paul Allen

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people…

— Terry Pratchett

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

— Terry Pratchett

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

— Jimmy Fallon