Favourite Book Quotes - Page 2

• I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.

  Markus Zusak

  Teacher, Book, Writing

  Source: estellabooks.blogspot.com

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• She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

  Kate Morton

  War, Book, Different

  Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.

  Rick Yancey

  Mother, Book, Bird

  "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• [What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

  Kevin Spacey

  Book, Favourite

  "Kevin Spacey answers your questions – as it happened". www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2014.

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• Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

  Peter York

  Children, Book, Animal

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• When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

  Paullina Simons

  Growing Up, Book, Favourite

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• You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Children, Book, Meals

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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