Garry Disher Quotes

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

Why buy a book when you can join a 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.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I am a bookworm.

I'm a bookworm.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

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

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.