In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until…

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

— Nicolas Roeg

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great…

— William Howard Taft

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally…

— Mitali Perkins

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,…

— Donald A. Norman

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and…

— Hojo Soun

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable…

— Zygmunt Bauman

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,…

— Anton Chekhov

“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.”

— John Humphrys

My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least…

— Christie Laing

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about…

— Sadhguru

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan