Book Quote by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

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 insisted that her children read.

— Jimmy Buffett

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

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

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

— Nick Lachey

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person…

— Hisham Matar

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . .…

— William H Gass

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used…

— Sam Gyimah

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and…

— Mary Engelbreit