Book Quote by James A. Baldwin

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to…

— Julianne Moore

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening…

— Jonathan Franzen

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

— Edward Hirsch

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I…

— Joan Didion

I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I could really…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most…

— Pat Murphy

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a…

— Walter Dean Myers

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries.…

— Josh Lieb

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of…

— Lauren DeStefano