Taylor Swift

“Harry Potter is the series that made me the reader I am. The themes of love, sacrifice, and standing up for what's right go far deeper than most adult fiction.”

“I read this book called Stargirl that is about this girl who is very different than everybody else in her school so people call her weird, but no matter how much they make fun of her she just continues to be herself and pretty soon that individuality rubs off on everybody else, they all wanna be like her. So Stargirl was an amazing book that I read.”

“In school I became obsessed with poetry really early on because, you know, my favorite books were the Dr. Seuss books and Shel Silverstein and like you know the books were you have the stories that come together through rhyming. And that was always my favorite book to read because it sounded like a song.”

“A copy of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald was observed by Taylor's bed”

“Where The Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago. As soon as I heard there was a film in the works starring the incredible @daisyedgarjones and produced by the brilliant @reesewitherspoon, I knew I wanted to be a part of it from the musical side.”

“>> Taylor: I never revealed this to anyone before but Hey Stephen is about Stephen King. >> Stephen: Stephen King, master of horror Stephen King, really? >> Taylor: Yes, he's amazing! The Dark Tower series changed my life, The Shining, The Stand and don't get me started on his short stories, absolutely luminescent.”

“>> Taylor: I never revealed this to anyone before but Hey Stephen is about Stephen King. >> Stephen: Stephen King, master of horror Stephen King, really? >> Taylor: Yes, he's amazing! The Dark Tower series changed my life, The Shining, The Stand and don't get me started on his short stories, absolutely luminescent.”

“>> Taylor: I never revealed this to anyone before but Hey Stephen is about Stephen King. >> Stephen: Stephen King, master of horror Stephen King, really? >> Taylor: Yes, he's amazing! The Dark Tower series changed my life, The Shining, The Stand and don't get me started on his short stories, absolutely luminescent.”

“When you watch a film or you read a book and there's a character that you identify with, you most of the time identify with them because they're targeting something in you that feels that you've been there that's why we relate to characters and so when I was reading you know Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and I was thinking um wow her husband just tolerates her. She's doing all these things and she's trying so hard and she's trying to impress him and he's just tolerating her the whole time. There was a part of me that was you know relating to that because at some point in my life I felt that way and so I ended up writing this song "tolerate it" that's all about sort of truth trying to love someone who's ambivalent.”

“I read a book about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor recently, and how there was this crazy frenzy surrounding them.”

“Widely considered one of the greatest muses of all time, Boyd, who was married first to George Harrison and later to Eric Clapton, inspired the hits “Something” by the Beatles, and “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight” by Clapton. Recently I devoured this intriguing woman’s memoir, Wonderful Tonight.”

“Taylor kept a book about Grace Kelly on her coffee table.”

““I wanted this video to be about the making of a 1950s movie being filmed on location in Africa,” she explains. Swift came up with the concept after reading a book by Ava Gardner and Peter Evans, The Secret Conversations.”

“> Girl: My favorite book is The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls because it showed me that there are so many different ways of living your life and there are so many different lifestyles. I never really thought of moving around because I've never had that experience and that book showed me an entire perspective on how life was and it was just so cool to read that. Taylor: Wow, I wanna read that now!”

“When I read the book it was one of those things that really changed my perspective on a lot of things. I think when I read it I was in probably fifth grade and I didn't do a lot of thinking about the distant future as far as our society goes, you know, at that point in my life. And this really kind of switched that up for me and it really kind of blew my mind in a way that stuck with me and when I got this script I just immediately thought I'm going to say yes to this! I really hope it's a good adaptation. I hope it's a good portrayal of this because if it is, if it's anything like the effect the book had on me, then I'm going to do this.”

“I was a big fan of fairy tales growing up and you'll see a lot of references to Romeo and Juliet and Scarlet Letter and things like that referenced in my songs and that's from my reading, that's from the stories I was brought up with.”

“I think there are a lot of books that I loved to read when I was younger that kind of teach you lessons. You know the funny ones like Amelia Bedelia or The Giving Tree which teaches you about human compassion and being kind to others”

“[On what her favorite book was that her parents read to her] It started out when I was very little, like Big Bird on the Farm and then it was Winnie the Puh and all the classic children's poetry books and stuff like that. And fables and fairytales.”

“[On what her favorite book was that her parents read to her] It started out when I was very little, like Big Bird on the Farm and then it was Winnie the Puh and all the classic children's poetry books and stuff like that. And fables and fairytales.”

“QUOTES-TO-LIVE-BY LIST: "Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise”

“"She’s been listening to tons of Carly Simon (who just joined her onstage in Massachusetts) and devouring novels, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. “They’re great stories, and they kind of take you away,” she says."”

“"She’s been listening to tons of Carly Simon (who just joined her onstage in Massachusetts) and devouring novels, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. “They’re great stories, and they kind of take you away,” she says."”

“"She’s been listening to tons of Carly Simon (who just joined her onstage in Massachusetts) and devouring novels, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. “They’re great stories, and they kind of take you away,” she says."”

“In her bedroom, in which everything was white and fluffy, she had a copy of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (2005), by Elizabeth Lesser.”

“I just read a 900-page book called The Kennedy Women, which dates back to the lineage of the first Kennedys coming from Ireland in the 1800s.”

“Who Will Cry When You Die? by Robin S Sharma. It’s a self-help book but it’s an easy read. Every page has a new thing you can do to show the people you love that they matter to you. It makes you appreciate what you have. I have a lot more good days now that I’ve read that.”

“@aimeemayo, kellie's right. Your book is going to change the world. You tell the best stories, and your life is like a movie. I miss you!”

“"My coffee table is so @cindycrawford right now."”