Books Quote by Anne Hegerty

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I…

— Joan Didion

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

— Ahmet Zappa

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

My mother insisted that her children read.

— Jimmy Buffett

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to…

— Julianne Moore

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150…

— Alan Kay

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were…

— J. J. Abrams

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my…

— Stephen King

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

— Edward Hirsch