Books Quote by Mitch Hedberg

That awkward moment when you can't read your own handwriting and you're like 'WTF did I just write!?'

— Anonymous

My mother insisted that her children read.

— Jimmy Buffett

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other…

— Nicole Krauss

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an…

— Joseph Conrad

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

— David Nicholls

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

— Markus Zusak

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the…

— Helen Humphreys

I wrote you a poem on my wrists. I used a razor as a pen and I signed my name in blood. But you…

— Molly Ringwald

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular…

— Evelyn Waugh

“To read is to dream, guided by someone else’s hand.”

— Fernando Pessoa

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

— Alejandro Zambra

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

— Truman Capote