American writers Quote by Eudora Welty

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

— Eudora Welty

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“I was three years old and learning how to read.”

— Mikhail Iossel

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody’s home.”

— Tom Van Dyke

“Books are where words live. I read to see who's home.”

— Tom Van Dyke

My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows,…

— Gunter Grass

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our…

— Martha Southgate

“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their…

— Elizabeth McCracken