Celebrities' favourite books

"Frankl, a psychologist and concentration camp survivor, shows how we can find the higher meaning in everything, even the most dire situations. He explains to the reader how to go about doing this, and he speaks with experience. This book defines inspiration."

"the characters that we have grown to love in this story are worse off at its end, but they are wiser, and the family still has each other. This is a great story about facing life's difficulties and moving on, no matter what."

"It took my breath away"

"I started reading passages from it in 1980, actually. I remember when we got the book and for Columbus Day I took it in and was allowed to read parts of [it] to the class."

"I wanted to be Mary Lennox so badly.I still have a soft spot for gardens and I'm always going off to see if I can find locked doors inside them."

"I've been obsessed by the book since I was about 7. I had all the Austen series on book tape. I was obsessed with the BBC version when I was about 10 or 11. I read the book finally when I was about 14 and got obsessed again."

"I just like Anne. I think that she's really funny and that she's crazy, but I like her a lot."

"Coelho talks about the whole of the universe, and it's contained in one grain of sand. For years I've been saying that, and now it's really starting to expose itself to me. My own grain of sand has been a story. The next 10 years will be my peak of innovation in film-making and just as a human being."

"I don't think I got out of bed for three days - I was just eating it up. My favorite story line was the one between Deanna and Eddie Bondo. I found that totally hot. It was one of the hottest love stories I've ever read."