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  • The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

    Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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.

    Reading   Writing   Years  
    Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.16, Pan Macmillan
  • The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

    Prayer   Book   Reading  
    Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
  • The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

    Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books
  • Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

    Writing   Age   Fifteen  
    Quoted in Rene¤ Rapin Willa Cather (1930).
  • All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

    Truth   Book   Reading  
    Esquire, Dec. 1934
  • 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.

  • Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

    Life   Beautiful   Book  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin
  • Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.

    Reading   Writing   Ideas  
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

    "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.
  • After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

    Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.
  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013
  • 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.

    Reading   Writing   Names  
  • …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.

    David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.165, Hachette UK
  • We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.

    Reading   Writing   Mean  
    "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.
  • Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

    "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

    Frank Smith (2007). “Reading: FAQ”
  • It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

    Reading   Writing   Long  
    "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.
  • 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.

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

  • For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

  • he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

    Reading   Writing   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.397
  • The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  • 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.

    Reading   Writing   Flow  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • “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.

    "Mark Leyner On “War, Inc.”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.
  • The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.27, Random House
  • Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

  • Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first.

    Sex   Writing   Cities  
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