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“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of…

— David E. Fessenden

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she read to…

— Catherine Cruzan

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down,…

— Michael Morpurgo

“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend…

— Will Schwalbe

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...”

— Adriana Trigiani

“I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.”

— Angela Thirkell

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

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

“What was it like to be the person who chose books readers would fall in love with, buy for their mothers, and remember forever…

— Elisabeth Egan

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty