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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

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

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

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and…

— Ally Carter

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

— Jeff Beck

Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had asked them…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an…

— Terry Pratchett

Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.

— Jack Hemingway

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 she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the…

— Maya Angelou

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

— Wendi Deng Murdoch