After Quote by Kate Beckinsale

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final…

— Sarah MacLean

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her…

— Pat Conroy

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened…

— Nikki Grimes

I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books - he…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music…

— Michael Morpurgo

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of…

— JoAnn Ross

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I…

— Kate Beckinsale