Jack Vance Quotes

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.