I like reading and writing, and I am a trained classical dancer. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“a 1997 Boston Globe article notes that “several new studies highlight the problems boys have in reading and writing, showing that they… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
“What will history’s verdict be about our time?" ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development.… — Krashen Stephen D Copy Share Image
“In Western languages, reading and writing involve turning from left to right, and therefore exercise the brain’s left hemisphere. Written language, invented… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“We keep drifting in time but do not pause to even think and reflect for a while. Life is truly lived in… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What do you learn at school, then?" "We learn about the Prophet and his three hundred authenticated miracles,and about Abraham and Isaac… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even if… — Tony Williams Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
