Mitch Hedberg Quotes

I cannot remember not being able to read.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

You can't write if you don't read.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

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

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.