Apartment Quote by Jim Trelease

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary

When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.

— Zach Woods

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

— Paula Danziger

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

— Jennie Garth

“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on,…

— Anonymous

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or…

— Andrea Barrett

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

— Michael Dirda

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

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them,…

— Caroline Kennedy

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

— Cornelia Funke

Every day, no matter how tired my father was, he'd put me in the car and drive me to Schaumburg Public Library, and he'd…

— Reshma Saujani

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