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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“In addition to reading and writing, we were expected to learn our history songs and ballads, although most of them had been… — D. Maria Trimble 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
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
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Mark Vonnegut 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
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
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
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
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
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I like reading and writing, and I am a trained classical dancer. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
“Adults have an amazing capacity to suck the joy out of such noble pursuits as Reading and Writing until they resemble their… — P.J. Bracegirdle Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“a 1997 Boston Globe article notes that “several new studies highlight the problems boys have in reading and writing, showing that they… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
