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When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY I read my books aloud before they were published.
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My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea...
ANDREW WYETH![]()
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother gro...
SHAWN ASHMORE I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books...
LOUIS L'AMOUR![]()
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et...
ANNIE DILLARD![]()
I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur...
CAROLYN KIZER![]()
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ...
WYNTON MARSALIS My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK![]()
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape...
ROBERT HARRIS![]()
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON![]()
Nathan Sutter," the teacher read.
Here. My mother never calls me Nathan."
Is it Nate?" BRANDON MULL My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON She read me case and law saying a juror can be dismissed for not deliberating in good faith. When sh...
EVELYN EZELL![]()
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
ANNIE DILLARD![]()
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
JAZZ FEYLYNN I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l...
IAN FRAZIER She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
BEVERLY CLEARY The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also s...
BERNHARD SCHLINK My mother always read the papers and knew what was going on. She always kept her finger in the polit...
JOAN MCGEE![]()
Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.
“Does your mot...
BRANDON MULL![]()
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me...
ACTION BRONSON My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
IRWIN SHAW![]()
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be...
DOROTHY ALLISON My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER![]()
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ...
VIK MUNIZ I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax m...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I have friends who read my books in Greek.
BRIAN LUMLEY I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL![]()
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, hu...
SUZI QUATRO![]()
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
BOB EDWARDS What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those w...
SELMA LAGERLOF I never read articles about my books.
BEN SCHOTT![]()
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark,...
PENN JILLETTE![]()
You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional an...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
DARYL SABARA Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ...
MAUD HART LOVELACE![]()
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON![]()
She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
MACKAY RASMUSSEN![]()
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
GEORGE BRETT Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER![]()
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade...
JUDITH VIORST My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a diff...
C. K. WILLIAMS![]()
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
DOROTHY ALLISON![]()
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
OSCAR WILDE![]()
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou...
DAVID MITCHELL![]()
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY![]()
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autob...
GUNTHER SCHULLER![]()
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
J.D. SALINGER Every night I was in the hospital, my family read it to me. My Aunt June started crying when she hea...
JUSTIN WERNKE Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
ALISON BECHDEL![]()
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not w...
GENE SIMMONS I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read a...
KORKY PAUL![]()
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ...
DAVID ROBINSON![]()
It is hard to read a cartoon aloud.
UNKNOWN My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would s...
DANA PERINO![]()
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea...
SANJEEV BHASKAR My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ![]()
Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO![]()
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If ...
MICHAEL JACKSON![]()
If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body...
KAMAND KOJOURI She read a lot of books on it.
DAVID KIRBY![]()
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
JACKIE COLLINS In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE GREAT In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
CATHERINE II![]()
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE THE GREAT I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to ...
ASA LARSSON![]()
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of...
BRYCE COURTENAY I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different li...
JANE YOLEN I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
SHIMON PERES![]()
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books ...
CHARLES KURALT![]()
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST![]()
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things t...
NEIL GAIMAN LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG...
SARAVAN MAHESWER![]()
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
ORLANDO BLOOM![]()
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO![]()
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë![]()
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept g...
R. A. SALVATORE![]()
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP![]()
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
OSCAR WILDE![]()
My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never ge...
JENNIFER TILLY![]()
Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read...
AARON SWARTZ![]()
My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
SHANNON L. ALDER![]()
For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.
AMIT KALANTRI![]()
I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of...
LEV GROSSMAN![]()
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade...
SUZANNE COLLINS![]()
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ...
BONO I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ...
DARREN SHAN![]()
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me...
RICHARD CARMONA I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil...
HENNING MANKELL
JEFF KINNEY I read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARY
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea...
ANDREW WYETH
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother gro... SHAWN ASHMORE I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et... ANNIE DILLARD
I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur... CAROLYN KIZER
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape... ROBERT HARRIS
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie... EMILY DICKINSON
Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan."
Is it Nate?"
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON She read me case and law saying a juror can be dismissed for not deliberating in good faith. When sh...
EVELYN EZELL
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ANNIE DILLARD
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. JAZZ FEYLYNN I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l...
IAN FRAZIER She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
BEVERLY CLEARY The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also s...
BERNHARD SCHLINK My mother always read the papers and knew what was going on. She always kept her finger in the polit...
JOAN MCGEE
Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.“Does your mot...
BRANDON MULL
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
IRWIN SHAW
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be... DOROTHY ALLISON My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ... VIK MUNIZ I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax m...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I have friends who read my books in Greek.
BRIAN LUMLEY I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, hu... SUZI QUATRO
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. BOB EDWARDS What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those w...
SELMA LAGERLOF I never read articles about my books.
BEN SCHOTT
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark,... PENN JILLETTE
You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional an... LAURELL K. HAMILTON My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
DARYL SABARA Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and ...
MAUD HART LOVELACE
Ah, much deluded! lay asideThy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON
She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
MACKAY RASMUSSEN
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. GEORGE BRETT Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... JUDITH VIORST My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a diff...
C. K. WILLIAMS
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. DOROTHY ALLISON
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. OSCAR WILDE
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou... DAVID MITCHELL
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autob... GUNTHER SCHULLER
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<... J.D. SALINGER Every night I was in the hospital, my family read it to me. My Aunt June started crying when she hea...
JUSTIN WERNKE Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
ALISON BECHDEL
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not w... GENE SIMMONS I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read a...
KORKY PAUL
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ... DAVID ROBINSON
It is hard to read a cartoon aloud. UNKNOWN My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would s...
DANA PERINO
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea... SANJEEV BHASKAR My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ
Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If ... MICHAEL JACKSON
If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body... KAMAND KOJOURI She read a lot of books on it.
DAVID KIRBY
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. JACKIE COLLINS In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE GREAT In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
CATHERINE II
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . . CATHERINE THE GREAT I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to ...
ASA LARSSON
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of... BRYCE COURTENAY I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different li...
JANE YOLEN I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
SHIMON PERES
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books ... CHARLES KURALT
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things t... NEIL GAIMAN LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG...
SARAVAN MAHESWER
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.' ORLANDO BLOOM
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me. FRIDA KAHLO
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. ANNE BRONTë
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept g... R. A. SALVATORE
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. QUENTIN CRISP
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. OSCAR WILDE
My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never ge... JENNIFER TILLY
Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read... AARON SWARTZ
My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis... SHANNON L. ALDER
For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. AMIT KALANTRI
I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of... LEV GROSSMAN
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade... SUZANNE COLLINS
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ...
DARREN SHAN
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me... RICHARD CARMONA I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil...
HENNING MANKELL
There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm. 
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page. 
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitle... 
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar. 