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“I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.”

People Home Reading My Family Let Me Dinner Interviews Signing

Author:Kathy Reichs

“I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.”

Ifs Book Would Be Kids Reading Sitting My Family Corners Bars Funeral Procedures Unnoticed Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.”

Joy Reading Conversation My Family Chiefs Topics Never Ending

Book:The hearthstone of my heart

Source: The hearthstone of my heart

“Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the children' and 'Take care of others.' Take care of old people. And we were raised with those values. Those are very important values and my family and I we were raised with those values and they continue strong in us today.”

People Children Said Important Care Today Values Reading Jesus Strong My Family Raised Caring Take Care Old People Jesus Love Reading The Bible Important Values

Author:Michael Jackson

“I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.”

Reading My Family Hanging Out Gym

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.”

Persons Done Whole Culture Reading Can Do Summer Research My Family Spain

Author:Maya Beiser

“My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.”

People World Firsts Reading Parent Nice Hundred My Friends My Family Independent Bookstores Signing Hometown Independent Bookstores

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.”

Years Firsts Two Book Moments School Remember Three Reading High School My Family Two Years Three Years Chapters Wrath Grapes Turtles Learning English Aha Moment

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Home Reading Too Much Growing Praying My Family My Time Hotel Airports Growing Old Reading And Writing Thinking Too Much Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.”

Knows World Different Reading Son Perspective My Friends My Family Who I Am Worried My Son Headlines Different Perspective

Author:Kid Rock

“It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.”

World Reading Found Opportunity Space Air Missing Thousand My Family Retreat Stale

Author:Nick Hornby