Boast Quote by John le Carre

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

— John le Carre

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

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

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

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read…

— Jane Smiley

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a…

— Alex Haley

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member…

— Umberto Eco

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the…

— Margaret Haddix

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have…

— Keith Gessen