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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. -- Edith Sitwell
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. -- Richard Powers
Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing. -- Julia Sweeney
What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. -- Erin McKean
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. -- Toby Jones
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing. -- Patti Smith
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. -- Daniel Pinkwater
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. -- Patricia Polacco
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. -- Sheryl Crow
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
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
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
I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays. -- Jonathan Franzen
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food. -- Jamie Oliver
What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing. -- Matthew Healy
Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing. -- James Gary Vineyard
Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext. -- Mark Bernstein
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing. --
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. -- Sara Sheridan
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. -- Glen Hirshberg
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. -- Eoin Colfer
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
I know the action in the street is exciting, but Jesus between all the bleeding and fighting I've been reading and writing. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life. -- Wayne Dyer
The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing. -- Adora Svitak
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
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry. -- Ian Rankin
There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'. -- Strive Masiyiwa
And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing. -- Casper Van Dien
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. -- Christina Baker Kline
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. -- Francis Bacon
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. -- Rivers Cuomo
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. -- Robin Hobb
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. -- Octavia Butler
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. -- Clarence Day
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. -- Marcus Garvey
My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him. -- Bruce Coville
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. -- Mary Garden
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. -- Ken Follett
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. -- John Lubbock
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
Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from. -- Ronnie Montrose
Hard writing makes easy reading. -- Wallace Stegner
Easy writing makes hard reading. -- Ernest Hemingway
Easy writing's curst hard reading. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Easy reading requires hard writing, -- Anthony Trollope
Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. -- Ken Kesey
Easy reading is damn hard writing. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reading is more important than writing. -- Roberto Bolano
Good reading makes for damn hard writing. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy. -- Philip Pullman
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts... -- Mark Vonnegut
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! -- Avi
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. -- Pat Conroy
It takes hard writing to make easy reading. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale. -- Justine Musk
Learn as much by writing as by reading. -- Lord Acton
I started writing as soon as I started reading. -- Michael Koryta
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. -- Angela Carter
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. -- Gertrude Stein
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing. -- Richard Ford
Writing a novel is a lot like reading one. -- Katherine Center
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out. -- Pam Allyn
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. -- William Zinsser
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. -- Margaret Mahy
Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy. -- Jennifer Haigh
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. -- Joseph Brodsky
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! -- Matt Groening
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. -- Tony Kushner
I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself. -- James Lipton
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing. -- Sylvia Plath
My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing -- Leopold Fechtner
I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. -- Kathryn Lasky
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing. -- Maya Angelou
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading -- Vladimir Nabokov
Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. -- Jeff Jarvis
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. -- Julia Alvarez
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. -- John Thomas Sladek
I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. -- Rex Stout
Let All Your Life's Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..! -- Sujit Lalwani
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. -- Antonio Banderas
Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. -- Sara Sheridan
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. -- Jorge Luis Borges

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