Book Quote by Amy Tan

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

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 grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.…

— John le Carre

By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's…

— Twinkle Khanna

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

— John le Carre

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt