--- title: "140 Reading writing Quotes by 129 authors" description: "Browse 140 Reading writing quotes by 129 authors. Discover the best Reading writing sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/ernest-hemingway-83_adjectives_the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-unbought_2078346.jpg" --- > [The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-unbought-stuffed-dogs/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/ernest-hemingway-83_adjectives_the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-unbought_2078346.jpg) > [“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dr-poison-king/what-a-therapist-is-doing-is-reading-writing-your-thoughts/) [Dr. Poison King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dr-poison-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c69/dr-poison-king-24515_human-nature_what-a-therapist-is-doing-is-reading-wri_871553.jpg) > [“Reading, Writing, and Enjoying A Creative Life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chrystal-dorsey/reading-writing-and-enjoying-a-creative-life/) Chrystal Dorsey [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/chrystal-dorsey-228289_creative-life_reading-writing-and-enjoying-a-creative_709789.jpg) > [I learned reading and writing from my mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sudha-murty/i-learned-reading-and-writing-from-my-mother/) [Sudha Murty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sudha-murty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/sudha-murty-4572_books_i-learned-reading-and-writing-from-my-mo_2091612.jpg) > [I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-groening/i-can-t-believe-it-reading-and-writing-actually-paid-off/) [Matt Groening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-groening/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/082/matt-groening-1946_believe_i-can-t-believe-it-reading-and-writing-a_228312.png) > [I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/i-still-can-t-decide-which-is-more-fun-reading-or-writing/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80f/rex-stout-2846_fun_i-still-can-t-decide-which-is-more-fun-r_2881022.png) > [“Reading is to writing what breathing is to living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-mae-robinson/reading-is-to-writing-what-breathing-is-to-living/) Diane Mae Robinson [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/diane-mae-robinson-232787_breathing_reading-is-to-writing-what-breathing-is_321559.jpg) > [“I love reading (and writing) historical fiction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-carney-coston/i-love-reading-and-writing-historical-fiction/) Barbara Carney-Coston [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/barbara-carney-coston-222068_family_i-love-reading-and-writing-historical-fi_3204869.jpg) > [I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elin-hilderbrand/i-am-a-very-nerdy-reader-in-that-i-am-as-disciplined-about-my-reading/) [Elin Hilderbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elin-hilderbrand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c6/elin-hilderbrand-8069_about_i-am-a-very-nerdy-reader-in-that-i-am-as_1452838.png) > [What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-healy/what-works-for-eating-and-swimming-might-work-for-reading-and-writing/) [Matthew Healy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-healy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac4/matthew-healy-13864_eating_what-works-for-eating-and-swimming-might_835464.jpg) > [I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-quarles/i-wish-thee-as-much-pleasure-in-the-reading-as-i-had-in-the-writing/) [Francis Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-quarles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ba/francis-quarles-1740_pleasure_i-wish-thee-as-much-pleasure-in-the-read_107687.png) > [When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eoin-colfer/when-i-went-to-school-i-was-already-reading-and-writing-in-fact-i-was/) [Eoin Colfer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eoin-colfer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b5/eoin-colfer-736_facts_when-i-went-to-school-i-was-already-read_630692.png) > [“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toba-beta/somebody-is-observing-my-writings-i-know-that-that-s-one-reason-why-i/) [Toba Beta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toba-beta/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd5/toba-beta-105_observing_somebody-is-observing-my-writings-i-know_338638.jpg) > [Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/reading-writing-teaching-learning-are-all-activities-aimed-at/) [Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe7/carlos-fuentes-1696_activity_reading-writing-teaching-learning-are-al_1370875.jpg) > [You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sterling-w-sill/you-should-always-have-2-books-the-one-you-re-reading-and-the-one-you/) [Sterling W Sill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sterling-w-sill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b43/sterling-w-sill-9927_book_you-should-always-have-2-books-the-one-y_2588634.jpg) > [So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-hirshberg/so-much-of-reading-and-writing-to-me-is-about-being-elsewhere-no/) [Glen Hirshberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-hirshberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7eb/glen-hirshberg-34513_elsewhere_so-much-of-reading-and-writing-to-me-is_1759661.jpg) > [“SIOP Feature 21 requires activities that integrate all language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking)—that is, forced output in English for all students,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-crawford/siop-feature-21-requires-activities-that-integrate-all-language/) [James Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-crawford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/james-crawford-19158_communication_siop-feature-21-requires-activities-that_1397987.png) > [“Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zachary-frerichs/reading-and-writing-is-an-escape-for-me-where-i-can-imagine-and/) Zachary Frerichs [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/780/zachary-frerichs-72918_imagination_reading-and-writing-is-an-escape-for-me_551557.jpg) > [The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-sort-of-strenuous-reading-and-writing-program-i-advocate-four-to/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/stephen-king-13_aptitude_the-sort-of-strenuous-reading-and-writin_1896078.jpg) > [We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-treasure/we-spend-all-our-time-teaching-reading-and-writing-we-spend/) [Julian Treasure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-treasure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/julian-treasure-8346_education_we-spend-all-our-time-teaching-reading-a_1534207.jpg) > [Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/reading-and-writing-and-the-preservation-of-language-and-its-forms/) [Iris Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-murdoch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/223/iris-murdoch-993_beauty_reading-and-writing-and-the-preservation_2661407.png) > [History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-cronkite/history-must-share-with-reading-writing-and-arithmetic-first-rank-as/) [Walter Cronkite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-cronkite/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/walter-cronkite-1759_curriculum_history-must-share-with-reading-writing_860351.jpg) > [I do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tiffany-haddish/i-do-have-esteem-issues-when-it-comes-to-reading-and-writing-i-always/) [Tiffany Haddish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tiffany-haddish/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c0/tiffany-haddish-12326_everything_i-do-have-esteem-issues-when-it-comes-to_1509317.jpg) > [“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-robinson/our-schools-have-a-doubly-hard-task-not-just-improving-reading/) [Ken Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-robinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/ken-robinson-2219_creativity_our-schools-have-a-doubly-hard-task-not_3196766.png) > [If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/if-you-spend-enough-time-reading-or-writing-you-find-a-voice-but-you-2/) [David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/david-foster-wallace-161_brain_if-you-spend-enough-time-reading-or-writ_3050532.jpg) > [I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-tillman/i-learned-to-write-from-reading-i-had-no-writing-classes-it-s-part-of/) [Lynne Tillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-tillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/lynne-tillman-5609_book_i-learned-to-write-from-reading-i-had-no_1581426.jpg) > [Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/writing-has-always-allowed-me-to-escape-i-was-a-very-lonely-child/) [Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/roxane-gay-520_active_writing-has-always-allowed-me-to-escape_368094.png) > [“large-frame pattern recognition, and the most complex forms of communication are cognitive areas where people still seem to have the advantage, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-brynjolfsson/large-frame-pattern-recognition-and-the-most-complex-forms-of/) [Erik Brynjolfsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-brynjolfsson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/erik-brynjolfsson-9007_communication_large-frame-pattern-recognition-and-the_2246943.jpg) > [If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-weil/if-the-traditional-rs-reading-writing-and-arithmetic-are-the-basics/) [Zoe Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-weil/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/zoe-weil-40201_arithmetic_if-the-traditional-rs-reading-writing-an_2493798.png) > [“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul-2/what-matters-in-the-end-in-literature-what-is-always-there-is-the/) [V.S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/v-s-naipaul-2-16418_books_what-matters-in-the-end-in-literature-wh_295110.jpg) > [“The problem with hanging one’s ideas of success on superficial hooks is that when those hooks fail—when the address changes, when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-lionel-aponte/the-problem-with-hanging-one-s-ideas-of-success-on-superficial-hooks/) Wayne Lionel Aponte [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbe/wayne-lionel-aponte-128151_failure_the-problem-with-hanging-one-s-ideas-of_1804842.jpg) > [I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/i-did-not-learn-my-theology-all-at-once-but-had-to-search-constantly/) [Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a8/martin-luther-106_bible_i-did-not-learn-my-theology-all-at-once_292542.jpg) > [“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-munro/if-a-good-system-of-agriculture-unrivaled-manufacturing-skill-a/) Thomas Munro [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/250/thomas-munro-189800_agriculture_if-a-good-system-of-agriculture-unrivale_928354.jpg) > [“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/if-you-spend-enough-time-reading-or-writing-you-find-a-voice-but-you/) [David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc6/david-foster-wallace-161_enough-time_if-you-spend-enough-time-reading-or-writ_819034.jpg) > [“December 9: The Mexican literary mafia has nothing on the Mexican bookseller mafia. Bookstores visited: the Librería del Sótano, in a basement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/december-9-the-mexican-literary-mafia-has-nothing-on-the-mexican/) [Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/roberto-bola-o-725_amor_december-9-the-mexican-literary-mafia-ha_2449600.jpg) > [“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-never-advances-it-recedes-as-fast-on-one-side-as-it-gains-on-3/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_reading-writing_society-never-advances-it-recedes-as-fas_2109628.jpg) > [“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-epstein/our-current-education-system-was-created-in-the-late-1800s-and-early/) Robert Epstein [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/robert-epstein-95761_age-discrimination_our-current-education-system-was-created_2645597.jpg) > [“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/the-history-of-man-is-simply-the-history-of-slavery-of-injustice-and/) [Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c83/robert-g-ingersoll-4527_history_the-history-of-man-is-simply-the-history_885663.jpg) > [“item 5. It is also beyond the scope of the Standards to define the full range of supports appropriate for English language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-marselle/item-5-it-is-also-beyond-the-scope-of-the-standards-to-define-the/) [Terry Marselle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-marselle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fa/terry-marselle-10647_english-language_item-5-it-is-also-beyond-the-scope-of-th_1887764.jpg) > [“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow-2/i-didn-t-actually-have-to-write-a-thing-because-the-act-of-reading/) [E.L. 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If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch, and the same blow shall send the white to his grave. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-never-advances-it-recedes-as-fast-on-one-side-as-it-gains-on-3/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_reading-writing_society-never-advances-it-recedes-as-fas_2109628.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_reading-writing_society-never-advances-it-recedes-as-fas_2109628.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_reading-writing_society-never-advances-it-recedes-as-fas_2109628.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. 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The factory school system no longer makes sense.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Epstein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-epstein/our-current-education-system-was-created-in-the-late-1800s-and-early/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/robert-epstein-95761_age-discrimination_our-current-education-system-was-created_2645597.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/robert-epstein-95761_age-discrimination_our-current-education-system-was-created_2645597.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/robert-epstein-95761_age-discrimination_our-current-education-system-was-created_2645597.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new…” — Robert Epstein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 38, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been the sport and prey of priest and king, the food of superstition and cruel might. Crowned force has governed ignorance through fear. Hypocrisy and tyranny—two vultures—have fed upon the liberties of man. From all these there has been, and is, but one means of escape—intellectual development. Upon the back of industry has been the whip. Upon the brain have been the fetters of superstition. Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. Reading, writing, thinking and investigating have all been crimes. Every science has been an outcast. All the altars and all the thrones united to arrest the forward march of the human race. The king said that mankind must not work for themselves. The priest said that mankind must not think for themselves. 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It is also beyond the scope of the Standards to define the full range of supports appropriate for English language learners and for students with special needs. At the same time, all students must have the opportunity to learn and meet the same high standards if they are to access the knowledge and skills necessary in their post–high school lives. Each grade will include students who are still acquiring English. 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