Always Quote by Avi

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

— Kajol

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was…

— Adriana Trigiani

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to…

— Julianne Moore

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 always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a…

— Alex Haley

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a…

— David Nicholls

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have…

— Beverly Cleary

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I…

— Peter Ackroyd

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had…

— Geraldine Brooks

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of…

— Lauren DeStefano