Keith Hernandez Quotes

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting.

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

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

I was a slow and lazy reader as a kid. 'The Prince and the Pauper' was the only non-school book I would read, over and over, between television, records and radio, until I picked up my aunt's copy of 'In Cold Blood' and she didn't ask for it back.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old at the time. My mom got me involved in community theater stuff when I was like five or six years old. How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching tons of movies and television.

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since.

To a young heart everything is fun.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.