About Quote by Tana French

I was obsessed with Miss Elizabeth when I was a little girl.

— Carmella

One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which…

— Alexander Chee

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

— Elizabeth Scott

I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke…

— Christina Hendricks

“books: Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown, and later, anything with even a passing mention of sex in it: Judy Blume’s Are You…

— Ivan E. Coyote

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the…

— S. E. Hinton

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

— Celeste Ng

I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

— Christopher Bollen

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding…

— Barbara Sukowa

I was obsessed with Sheila E growing up.

— Alana Haim

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her…

— Antonia Fraser