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- If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works. -- John Rowland
- We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. -- Jennifer Egan
- I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row. -- Julia Glass
- The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. -- Harold Bloom
- Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also. -- Blaise Pascal
- There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of. -- John Herschel
- How well he's read, to reason against reading! -- William Shakespeare
- There is creative reading as well as creative writing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. -- Robert Sheckley
- Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. -- Mark Haddon
- I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else. -- Billy Collins
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. -- Paul Muldoon
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. -- Clarence Day
- Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. -- Benicio Del Toro
- I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well. -- Sarah Monette
- I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. -- Maya Angelou
- I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. -- Bella Thorne
- 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
- Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
- I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time. -- Orson Welles
- Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. -- Chaim Potok
- I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. -- Charles Stanley
- I am well versed in reading the pages of war. -- Janusz Korczak
- There is then creative reading as well as creative writing -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. -- Harold Bloom
- It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. -- Catherynne M. Valente
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- A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. -- Jeremy Collier
- I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well. -- Monica Youn
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry -- Paul Muldoon
- Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. -- Dodie Smith
- Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic (sic) reading list. -- George W. Bush
- No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child -- Robert D. Harris
- It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. -- Brandon Sanderson
- Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. -- Richard Whately
- It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself. -- Henry Allen Ironside
- My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. -- Kevin Gates
- I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't. -- Joel Kinnaman
- One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. -- Richard Baxter
- People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Well, reading Twitter's a lot like staring at an ant farm," Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth"Except without all the productivity. -- Wayne Gladstone
- I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't. -- Noam Chomsky
- Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves. -- Harold Bloom
- You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it. -- Martin Luther
- I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals. -- Marge Piercy
- Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first. -- Keith Rabois
- The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush. -- Rush Limbaugh
- A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience. -- Michel Faber
- The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people. -- Derric Yuh Ndim
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