Able Quote by Anne Fadiman

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't…

— Maurice Sendak

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

— Martha Stewart

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

— David Rakoff

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved.…

— Dorothy Hamill

These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went on. My…

— Woody Allen

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have…

— Keith Gessen

I was obsessed with everything and anything; I wanted to learn everything, to read everything, to do everything. I was constantly on sensory overload.…

— Amanda Gorman

As a child I loved to be in the kitchen with my mum and aunties, eavesdropping on the adults.

— Monica Galetti

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or…

— Andrea Barrett

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an…

— Mohsin Hamid

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused…

— Rita Dove