England Quote by Karin Slaughter

I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.

— Trinny Woodall

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

— Stuart Franklin

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin

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

— Beverly Cleary

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work,…

— Eleanor Catton

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I…

— Alan Bradley

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

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

— Sue Monk Kidd