Able Quote by Ian Mcewan

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a…

— Alex Haley

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I…

— Joan Didion

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

— Bruce Brown

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my…

— Glen Duncan

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was…

— Chelsea Clinton

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think…

— George Pelecanos

My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.

— Marley Dias

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we…

— Courtney B. Vance

I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make us go…

— Janet Jackson