Bed Quote by Elizabeth Berg

My mother insisted that her children read.

— Jimmy Buffett

And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her…

— Pat Conroy

“Eleanor was a member of one of America’s great families, niece to Teddy Roosevelt and a distant cousin of her future husband. But she…

— Gail Collins

“It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were confused with…

— Jane Langton

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of…

— Jincy Willett

“Eleanor was charming. That is to say, her manner seemed designed to merit that description: she displayed towards us a sort of girlish archness,…

— Sarah Caudwell

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according…

— Nate Powell

“She lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the plot, but…

— Alejandro Zambra

And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as…

— Brandon Sanderson