Book Quote by Beverly Cleary

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment…

— Jim Trelease

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year…

— Naomi Alderman

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used…

— Sam Gyimah

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and…

— Kate DiCamillo

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

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

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and…

— Judith Viorst

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

— David Grann

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

— Stuart Franklin