Books Quote by Mark Kozelek

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter…

— Michael Easton

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic,…

— Patti Smith

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

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.…

— Christopher Meledandri

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

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 father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

— Cathleen Schine

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson