Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. — Carlos Fuentes 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
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
I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I often note that my accent is a result of reading, writing, and speaking in three languages, something that immigrants across our… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want… — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“SIOP Feature 21 requires activities that integrate all language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking)—that is, forced output in English for all students,… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,… — John Taylor Gatto 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
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
I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The problem with hanging one’s ideas of success on superficial hooks is that when those hooks fail—when the address changes, when the… — Wayne Lionel Aponte Copy Share Image
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools… — Thomas Munro Copy Share Image
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“item 5. It is also beyond the scope of the Standards to define the full range of supports appropriate for English language… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image