Aunt Quote by Sefi Atta

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

— Tom Rachman

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier…

— Louis L'Amour

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

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

— Cathleen Schine

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

— Sarah Dessen

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

— Jennifer Echols

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have…

— Keith Gessen

Both my parents were big readers.

— Christopher Bollen

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

— Junot Diaz

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.…

— John le Carre