Age Quote by Brigid Brophy

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable…

— Lisa Lucas

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

— Tom Stoppard

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became…

— Sia

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost…

— Elif Batuman

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…

— Tana French

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten…

— Michael Dirda

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of…

— Kate DiCamillo