Age Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how…

— Diamond Dallas Page

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

— Guy Claxton

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting…

— James Frey

One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as…

— Yishan Wong

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

— J. D. Salinger

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

— Katherine Paterson

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different…

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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