I could read at a very early age and I loved stories…

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early…

— Laura Bush

“There are more similarities between the writing of men and women than there are differences. Aren't we all just trying to tell stories? How…

— Roxanne Gay

I've always really loved stories told from the point of view of children.

— Mara Wilson

“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the…

— Brandy Purdy

“Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...”

— Nanette L. Avery

“Little G loved stories about all things sacred laced with a bit of irreverence.”

— Michaelene McElroy

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all…

— Rachel Nichols

A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort…

— Jens Lekman

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on -…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which…

— Samuel Johnson

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old…

— Patrick Modiano

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be…

— John Dewey

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning…

— Anonymous

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

— Poppy Z. Brite