Favourite Book Quotes

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

I read 'Carrie' when I was younger and that's one of my favourite books.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Borstal Boy.'

I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.

'The Tin Drum' is one of my favourite books of all time - I've probably got 12 or 15 copies with different covers, different translations - but it's also just about my favourite film.