Born Quote by Tanith Lee

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were…

— J. J. Abrams

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather…

— Neil Cross

My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to…

— Anne Hegerty

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

— Lisa Lucas

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read…

— Vik Muniz

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching…

— Karl Lagerfeld

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age,…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane