Able Quote by Lynne Tillman

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to…

— Nancy Pearl

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

— Katherine Paterson

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger…

— Leigh Bardugo

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made…

— Anita Desai

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a…

— Rebecca Solnit

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the…

— Andrew Sean Greer