I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project.… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Since reading and writing didn’t come easily, Irving learned that “to do anything really well, you have to overextend yourself. . .… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now?… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“In addition to reading and writing, we were expected to learn our history songs and ballads, although most of them had been… — D. Maria Trimble Copy Share Image
Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We have time for everything: to sleep, to run from one place to another, to regret having mistaken and to mistake again,… — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic.… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
“To live and to dream, to study and share her thoughts, to ponder the words of great men...To be a man, to… — Susanna Calkins Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did… — Parker J. Palmer 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
“If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn’t even know what direction they should turn… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
