Brother Quote by Emily Dickinson

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother…

— Peter Carey

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or…

— Andrea Barrett

I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told…

— Diane Setterfield

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

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always…

— Lauren Myracle

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to…

— Kate DiCamillo

“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. Still, one…

— Will Schwalbe

My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading…

— Sonam Kapoor

A lot of parents are confused because they're reading a lot, and they can't make up their mind on what they're doing.

— Jo Frost

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday.…

— Anna Quindlen