I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.Goh Chok Tong

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.Boris Becker

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.Chester Brown

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.Margaret Haddix

I was reading a book 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine 

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.Naguib Mahfouz

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. Joshua Lederberg 

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright 

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.Amy Grant

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. Michael Stipe