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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find…

— Helen Keller

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories…

— John Irving

The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer Giles, Rover…

— Michael Rosen

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To…

— Wilbur Smith

“At the end of each day, Elizabeth read to me. She had shelves and shelves of children's classics, dusty hardcovers with stamped gold titles:…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely…

— Patrick deWitt

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I…

— Robert Lepage

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

— Arthur Bradford

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

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

— Clyde Tombaugh

History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories…

— Nancy Horan

“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last late into…

— Lev Grossman