Kate Williams Quotes

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

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.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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.'

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.

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.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

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.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

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 loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

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

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

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

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.