Age Quote by David Gross

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation,…

— Stephen Hunter

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a…

— Tess Gerritsen

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect…

— Tanith Lee

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from…

— Ed Bradley

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

— Edward Hirsch

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

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

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had…

— Michael Sims

I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in an enormous…

— Owen King

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

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or…

— Joseph O'Neill