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My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

— Donald Hall

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

— Mathias Rust

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

— Judy Blume

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

— Robert Redford

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

— Geraldine Brooks

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

— Amy Tan

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

— Ken Bruen

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

— Michael P. Anderson

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

— Kajol

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

— Jewell Parker Rhodes