Allowance Quote by Judy Blume

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was…

— Rhea Perlman

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who…

— Joyce Maynard

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10,…

— Rob Thomas

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

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

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my…

— Stephen King

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came…

— Henning Mankell

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

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and…

— Kathleen Norris

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

Funny enough, I don't really recall being read kids' books as a child. I think my truly favorite thing to do was flipping through…

— Julio Torres