Arms Quote by Janet Fitch

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought…

— Anonymous

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 have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

— Shimon Peres

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

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

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 remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way…

— Karin Slaughter

My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home,…

— Emilia Clarke

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

— Honeysuckle Weeks