Before Quote by Franz Wright

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

— Alice Oswald

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was…

— Karl Marlantes

As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized…

— Greta Gerwig

I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War…

— James A. Michener

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time…

— Jon Scieszka

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five,…

— Chris Abani

When I was growing up, I had to read for 30 minutes a day.

— Gordon Hayward

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

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long…

— Nathan Fillion

I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't…

— Lucy Corin

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd