Caroline Kennedy Quotes

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.