Books Quote by Robert Osborne

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

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to…

— Julianne Moore

During my younger days, we didn't have digital media or electronic gadgets the way we do now. So the best part of my day…

— Sudha Murty

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have…

— Beverly Cleary

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories…

— Michelle Magorian

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

— Stuart Franklin

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

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought…

— Anita Brookner

My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night.…

— Jerry Weintraub