Reading And Writing Quotes

Reading And Writing Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

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.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

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.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

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.

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.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

“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.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

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.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

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.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

…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.

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.

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.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

We are inspired by divine power to write.