Book Quote by Kathleen Hanna

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

— Alley Mills

When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother…

— Peter Carey

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

— Sylvia Day

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In…

— Christopher Bollen

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my…

— Dale T. Mortensen

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and…

— Judith Viorst

My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.

— Leila Slimani

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

My mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw