Academy Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different…

— Jennifer Weiner

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were…

— J. J. Abrams

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age,…

— Julia Roberts

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

— Kate DiCamillo

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five,…

— Chris Abani

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

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

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening…

— Jonathan Franzen

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books,…

— William Morris

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

— Fran Lebowitz

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

— Edward Hirsch