“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
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
Men, age 25 to 55, the labor-force participation rate is down 10%. That's unbelievable. There are 35,000 dying of opioids every year.… — Jamie Dimon 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
“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
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
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
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
Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext. — Mark Bernstein 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
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
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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
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
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
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks 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
“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
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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
“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
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
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,… — Don Roff 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
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