Books Quote by Patti Smith

Both my parents were big readers.

— Christopher Bollen

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In…

— Christopher Bollen

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

— Sarah Dessen

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

“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

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

— Tom Rachman

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

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

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

— Sue Monk Kidd