Top 1200 Reading And Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

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

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

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.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

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

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also want to bring this into my characters, who also read and think. There's that great quote from Virginia Woolf - it's very simple: "...books continue each other." I think when you're a writer, you're also, hopefully, a reader, and you're bringing those earlier works into your work.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

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.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading “What We See”. Maybe that's really the point of writing. That if you take the time to look, to really observe, then you see what is happening, and, with the clarity of that vision, you can act to save neighborhoods.

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

Each weekday morning, I'm up - reading, reading, reading.

I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

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

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.