“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.” MenWritingCharacterMotherFatherParentNiceReaderGentleSupportiveColorfulNice Man Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.” BigsParentReader Author:Christopher Bollen
“If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.” IfsLooksBookAgeReadingAsksParentReaderTreasureTalesDictionary Author:Gloria Estefan
“A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.” MeanChildrenBookIndividualParentCuttingReaderPrintedPublication Book:The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield Source: The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield
“I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.” FeelsTryingParentTeachLaughingReaderMoralityLessonsObligationImpartInstill Author:Michael Ian Black
“If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.” IfsKidsReadingParentReaderAssociatesGood Parent Author:Orson Scott Card
“So, what we do in Love Dare for Parents is walk through the principles that help you win the hearts of your children and find that balance as a parent. As we all know, parenting can be wonderful and exasperating at times. So, we walk through the principles of demonstrating love to your kids in the most appropriate and healthy ways. We learned a great deal doing it and we believe the readers will too.” KnowsWayBelieveHeartChildrenHelpingKidsWinningParentWalksDealsPrinciplesWonderfulReaderBalanceHealthyOur ChildrenDareYour ChildrenAppropriateDemonstratingLove Dare Author:Alex Kendrick
“I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.” BookFactsParentReader Author:Christopher Castellani
“I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingTwoYoungParentNumbersChildhoodMiddleReaderGradesTrappedAdulthoodTwo Worlds Author:Rick Riordan
“My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.” WellsParentReaderEducatedSophisticatedHumanistic Author:Patti Smith