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To read and write is a paradise. -- Carlos Fuentes
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. -- Suzi Quatro
Every child must be taught how to think, read and write. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every child should be taught how to think, read and write. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. -- Alex D. Linz
The first slave to read and write was the first to run away. -- Henry Louis Gates
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write. -- Faye Dunaway
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. -- Sofia Vergara
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. -- Sloan Wilson
Best gift you give your kids is to learn them how to read and write". -- dontknow
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. -- Che Guevara
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. -- Rick Springfield
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. -- Alberto Moravia
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. -- Ziauddin Yousafzai
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! -- Prince Philip
I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. -- John Hope
I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue. -- Angel Cabrera
The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical. -- Juan Enriquez
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. -- Stephen King
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too. -- Sister Souljah
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. -- Gail Tsukiyama
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! -- H. G. Wells
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately -- George Bernard Shaw
When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write. -- Michael Sheen
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. -- Yanni
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. -- Mark Twain
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. -- Thomas Huxley
What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. -- John Barton
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. -- Robin Williams
A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write. -- Robert Hass
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong. -- George H. W. Bush
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially. -- Megyn Kelly
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write. -- George W. Bush
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting -- Annie Dillard
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons. -- Ray Bradbury
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
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. -- Red Cloud
I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination. -- Darren Shan
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words. -- Ron Shock
It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code. -- Juan Enriquez
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales. -- Carine Roitfeld
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. -- Eva Green
I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone. -- Woody Allen
First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of. -- Olawale Robyns
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code. -- will.i.am
My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody. -- Isabella Rossellini
It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write. -- Ger Duany
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. -- Joe Wright
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously. -- William T. Vollmann
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. -- Diane Wakoski
There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening. -- Linda Leaming
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. -- William Labov
Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. -- Craig Venter
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. -- Countee Cullen
The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write. -- Adora Svitak
I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write. -- Grace Paley
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. -- Adriana Trigiani
MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo. -- Sam Wineburg
I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. -- Wilford Brimley
In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K and marches steadily across the roof of his mouth, ending with elusive vowels that hover outside his lips -- Jhumpa Lahiri
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. -- Clarence Thomas
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. -- Thomas Huxley
My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish. -- Joseph Bruchac
It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage. -- Ernest L. Boyer
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth. -- Peter Abrahams
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. -- Khaled Hosseini
Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write. -- Jon Scieszka
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. -- Alex Flinn
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. -- Barbara Bush
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. -- Jeanette Winterson
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. -- Ira Glass
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. -- Jesmyn Ward
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. -- Henry R. Luce
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. -- Nathalie Sarraute
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. -- Terry Pratchett
But authors before they write should read. -- Fanny Burney
Write the book you want to read -- Austin Kleon
I don't read books, I write them. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Write the book you'd want to read. -- Martha Stewart
More people write poetry than read it. -- George Carlin
People who say they read more write better. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Write like no one's going to read it ! -- Tom Evans
Read like a butterfly, write like a bee. -- Philip Pullman
I write what I would like to read. -- Kathleen Norris
Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun. -- Daniel Pinkwater
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. -- Ray Bradbury
It's harder to read code than to write it. -- Joel Spolsky
I can read and arrange, but I can't write. -- Nina Simone
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. -- John Adams
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. -- Sherman Alexie
I write romance because I love to read romance. -- Rachel Gibson
Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth! -- Clint Smith
There are more writers who read than readers who write. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When I want to read a novel, I write one. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read. -- Jackie Collins
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. -- Wally Amos
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. -- Stephen King
We often read with as much talent as we write. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You write to be read. That is the bottom line. -- Jane Yolen
History is what we read, write and think about the past. -- Michael Howard
You want to write something as good as what you've read. -- Jodi Picoult
Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously. -- Ansel Elgort
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint. -- Sara Genn
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. -- David Coleman
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off. -- Catherine the Great
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. -- Epictetus
To write you had to read so I backed into reading. -- Richard Ford
If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you. -- Jonah Goldberg
Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) -- Nora Barnacle
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. -- D. H. Lawrence
Desire to learn.Desire to read.Desire to think.Desire to write. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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