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Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. -- Sara Sheridan
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. -- Franklin P. Jones
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
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. -- Julian Barnes
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 really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page. -- Kunal Nayyar
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down. -- Chris Hayes
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. -- Karin Slaughter
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. -- Julian Barnes
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible -- Barack Obama
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. -- John Murphy
... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy? -- Brandon Sanderson
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. -- Helen Keller

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