Bigs Quote by Christopher Bollen

My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my…

— Christopher Bollen

Both my parents were big readers.

— Christopher Bollen

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

— Sarah Dessen

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic,…

— Patti Smith

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

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

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my…

— Stephen King

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

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

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.…

— Christopher Meledandri