I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of…

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into…

— Clement Greenberg

“The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading away, having…

— Émile Zola

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

— Nelson Mandela

The Charlie Manson that you've created, that's not me. That's only an illusion in your minds, it hasn't got anything to do with me.

— Charles Manson

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

— Confucius

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

“If our schools continue to limit the literacy curriculum to reading and writing traditional, alphabetic, printed texts, then our children will be well prepared…

— Elizabeth A. Baker

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.…

— Alan Kay

“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have…

— Krashen Stephen D

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn…

— Frank Smith

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be…

— Margaret Atwood

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the…

— Bob Ney

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

— Strive Masiyiwa

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson