Backwards Quote by Alafair Burke

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

— Diablo Cody

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

— Junot Diaz

I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and…

— Robert Rinder

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of…

— Lauren DeStefano

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that…

— Cassandra Clare

Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote.

— JOHN REYES

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

— Idris Elba

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a…

— David Nicholls

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

I didn't have the best time at primary school so reading a book was my way of getting away from whatever was upsetting me.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell