Book Quote by Terry Pratchett

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...

— Elizabeth George Speare

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 mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

— Terry Pratchett

Funny enough, I don't really recall being read kids' books as a child. I think my truly favorite thing to do was flipping through…

— Julio Torres

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

The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.

— Justin Cartwright

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure…

— A. A. Milne

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where…

— Norton Juster

My mother insisted that her children read.

— Jimmy Buffett

I had someone ask me, they thought I was doing a kids' book for some reason. I think my book reads like a kids'…

— Nate Bargatze