Family Quote by Caroline Kennedy

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

My mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

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

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or…

— Andrea Barrett

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

— Jennie Garth

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged…

— Sasha Grey

I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'.…

— Gore Vidal

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

My mother insisted that her children read.

— Jimmy Buffett

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

— Katherine Paterson