Books Quote by V. S. Naipaul

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

— Oprah Winfrey

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my…

— Melissa Bank

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no…

— Craig Ferguson

Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I read, and…

— Lauren Ridloff

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

— Imelda Staunton

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who…

— John Green

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged…

— Eugene Ionesco

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I…

— Donald Miller

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

— Anonymous

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt