literary upbringing Quotes

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.