Book Quote by Beverly Cleary

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

— Indira Gandhi

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The…

— Nick Hornby

I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into.

— Kyle Mooney

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of…

— Ray Kroc

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 didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything…

— Pat Barker

I was a big reader when I was a kid.

— Steve Backshall

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around baseball bats.…

— James Ivory

I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Anonymous