Afternoon Quote by Pico Iyer

I remember the one time, when I was in the 10th grade and the school president, my entire school had surprised me with a…

— Sherlyn Chopra

I remember it was Dr. Seuss' birthday, and I got to read to the little ones and that was just an awesome experience. I…

— Travis Kelce

I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that…

— Sarah MacLean

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months.…

— Scott Turow

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of…

— Howard Jacobson

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven…

— Rosemary Mahoney

“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion…

— Rene Denfeld

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her…

— Pat Conroy

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who…

— Harold Pinter

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me…

— Flip Wilson

At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of…

— Therese of Lisieux

“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray,…

— Anna Quindlen