What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.” — James Gary Vineyard Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell 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
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
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 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
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
“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.” — Toba Beta 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
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
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
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and… — Christie Laing 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 do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read… — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always… — Roxane Gay 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege not… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
