Top 1200 Reading And Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been able to provide leadership. I don't read leadership books anymore.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.

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

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

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.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..!

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

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.

The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

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.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.