Avid Quote by Adriana Trigiani

“My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...”

— Adriana Trigiani

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes…

— Walter Dean Myers

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that…

— Nancy Werlin

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

— Sylvia Day

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am so fortunate to have a mom who shared with me her love for books and helped me, from my earliest memories, take…

— Robin Lopez

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's…

— Tracy Chevalier

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the…

— S. E. Hinton

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder