Wind In The Willows Quotes - Page 2

• As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

  Mohsin Hamid

  Children, Book, Wind

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• It takes all sorts (to make a world

  Miguel de Cervantes

  World, Miscellaneous, Variety

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lesley Lipson (1998). “Exemplary Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

  John le Carre

  Father, Book, Reading

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