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I grew up in a house with very few books.

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

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.'

I grew up in a house full of books.

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.

I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.

I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way people think Bollywood works, but that's who we are.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.