Book Quote by Edith Wharton

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

— Laila Lalami

I rarely read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood -…

— Jefferson Mays

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 didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything…

— Pat Barker

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The…

— Nick Hornby

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

— Beverly Cleary

“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be…

— Lillian H. Smith

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