Aunt Quote by Robert Cormier

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

— Franny Armstrong

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

— Kristina McMorris

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather…

— Edwidge Danticat

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

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family…

— Amy Bloom

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

— Tom Rachman

When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each of whom,…

— Teju Cole

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and…

— Ruskin Bond

I've always been a reader and a writer.

— Laini Taylor

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal