Barbie Quote by Joyce Maynard

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

— Celeste Ng

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she…

— Jenna Bush

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful…

— Judy Blume

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

— John Dufresne

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

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

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 could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue

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

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

— Adriana Trigiani