Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing things that clever men have long known and stupid ones are not interested… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
When I was in college I was an English major and my last year or so I tutored high school students in… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“Ho there, scribe. I see that you write well enough. Can you also read?' 'Obviously you cannot, boy,' he replied. 'For if… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about… — Maida Heatter Copy Share Image
“I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“You never look at these flowers; therefore they become stale to you. If you would only look into them, then your reading… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic… — A. J. Pritchard Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself,… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
“Now that reading and writing are universal accomplishments, books are not bought so freely as they were about 1820. . . .… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
![“Now that reading and writing are universal accomplishments, books are not bought so freely as they were about 1820. . . . [I]n fact, book-buying does not increase in proportion with the power of reading printed matter. People prefer periodical trash, snippets of twaddle. [February 1894, editor's…” quote by Andrew Lang](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f5/andrew-lang-15654_book_now-that-reading-and-writing-are-univers_2879049.jpg)
