Aspirations Quote by Gary Kemp

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year…

— Naomi Alderman

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had…

— Geraldine Brooks

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and…

— Robert Harris

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a…

— John Irving

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

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion…

— Nikola Tesla

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals…

— Rainn Wilson

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

— David Grann