Big Quote by Dawn O'Porter

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

— Jack Gleeson

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

— Edward Hirsch

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that…

— Nancy Werlin

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I…

— Samuel West

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I…

— Neil Gaiman

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

— Celine Sciamma

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because…

— Anne Frank

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

— Paloma Faith

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld