Born Quote by Angela Rayner

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read…

— Vik Muniz

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I…

— Joan Didion

My mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

— Doris Lessing

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect…

— Tanith Lee

My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to…

— Anne Hegerty

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

— Sudha Murty

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary

— Lynn Johnston

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Alain de Botton