Always Quote by Julianne Moore

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I…

— Joan Didion

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

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

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a…

— David Nicholls

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind…

— Jaume Cabre

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

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

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

— Kelly Clarkson

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

— Tracy Chapman

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear…

— David Foster Wallace