Age Quote by Anna Quindlen

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

— Oprah Winfrey

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that…

— Claire Messud

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

— Anne Tyler

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed…

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Diablo Cody

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book…

— Rebecca Stead

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively

By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it…

— Brigid Brophy

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then…

— Brian Selznick

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you…

— Richard K. Morgan