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.
Bill Bryson
I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its... →
Julie Burchill
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore:... →
Anthony Burgess
In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest... →
Melvin Burgess
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold... →
Delta Burke
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a... →
Mark Burnett
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
John Burns