Reading Writing Quotes

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

You want schools to teach reading and writing. But you also want schools to reflect who you are and your values.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

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.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.