Top 100 Quotes About Reading And Writing
#1. When I as reading and writing, I was in that exhilarating place where the life of the imagination is more real than the tiles and soil and rock under my feet.
Deborah Lawrenson
#2. Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
John Ruskin
#4. Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
Mark Vonnegut
#5. Well I've been locking myself up in my house for some time now Reading and writing and reading and thinking and searching for reasons and missing the seasons The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow
Colleen Hoover
#6. 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 each other.
Jonathan Lethem
#7. Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#8. If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.
Louis De Bernieres
#9. If you can't learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
Iris Murdoch
#11. Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
Margaret Atwood
#12. So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Glen Hirshberg
#13. People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.
Harold Bloom
#14. Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.
Gemma Malley
#15. A novelist has two lives
a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
Jane Smiley
#16. When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
Eoin Colfer
#17. Both reading and writing are experiences
lifelong
in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
Eudora Welty
#18. My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
Barbara Corcoran
#19. For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.
Robin McKinley
#20. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#21. There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.
Strive Masiyiwa
#22. As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.
Mortimer J. Adler
#23. Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.
Matthew Stewart
#24. 'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.
Mark Leyner
#25. ... she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
David Nicholls
#26. Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White
#27. Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood
#28. There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
Anne Lamott
#29. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.
Stephen King
#30. I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco
#31. Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.
Marita Golden
#34. Writing is the most disembodied art, and reading and writing are largely private and solitary experiences, so music and dance have always enchanted me as arts in which the body of the performer communicates directly to the audience, welding a kind of communion writers rarely experience.
Rebecca Solnit
#35. I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#36. The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
Hojo Soun
#37. I love reading and writing novels that don't fit nicely into a specific genre. But they also have to move. I want to be excited about each chapter, because otherwise why is it there?
Patrick Keithahn
#38. I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.
Jon Scieszka
#39. How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations - that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls.
Richard Flanagan
#41. Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.
Elena Ferrante
#42. What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.
Erin McKean
#43. We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
Sara Sheridan
#44. I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.
Daniel Pinkwater
#45. Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
Hugh Mackay
#46. Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.
Frank Smith
#47. The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.
Pankaj Mishra
#48. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
Guy Claxton
#49. Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader's attention only as long as the author sustains the reader's trust.
Jonathan Franzen
#50. In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
Marcus Aurelius
#51. The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.
Tom Chatfield
#52. Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
Kate Voegele
#53. I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of heterosexuals.
Ellen DeGeneres
#54. A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
#55. So what else you into, then? I mean except reading and writing, talking like the Queen, and dressing like my granddad?
Alexis Hall
#56. She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.
Rainbow Rowell
#57. After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!
Linda Sue Park
#58. School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
Bunker Roy
#59. I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!
Matt Groening
#61. I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
Jeremy Lin
#62. My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.
Christie Laing
#63. Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as real work.
Parker J. Palmer
#64. You learn to write better by reading.
You learn to read better by writing.
Reading and writing work together
to improve your ability to think!
Unknown
#65. Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
Michael Kimmelman
#66. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.
Maida Heatter
#68. As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.
Sheryl Crow
#69. The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
Richard Powers
#70. I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year.
Simone Muench
#71. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.
Desmond Tutu
#72. I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
Toby Jones
#73. My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.
Noel Coward
#74. Reading and writing ... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect ... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.
Clive James
#75. Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.
Julia Sweeney
#76. Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
John Lubbock
#77. There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.
David Nicholls
#78. I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut
#79. It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
Patti Smith
#80. Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.
Frank Lampard
#81. Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
Tom Hodgkinson
#82. Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.
Mark Bernstein
#83. I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#84. Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
Bob Ney
#85. Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
Bill Callahan
#86. Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.
Roxane Gay
#87. Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.
That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.
Toba Beta
#88. 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
#89. A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.
H.G.Wells
#90. As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.
Peter Sloterdijk
#91. The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.
Erin Morgenstern
#92. but the attitude reading and writing
gives you
Thylias Moss
#93. All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A's, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.
Sylvia Plath
#94. Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you.
Mitali Perkins
#95. The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy - the insertion of oneself into the life of another.
Julie Schumacher
#96. I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed.
Bauvard
#97. I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity.
Suzi Quatro
#98. The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
Albert Einstein
#99. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
Diana Jane Heath
#100. Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
(advicetowriters)
George V. Higgins
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