Best Reading Writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.”

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Author:Nolan Gould

“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.”

“Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things are taught to children before they begin school. THE OCCULTISM OF THE PAST BECOMES THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE.”

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Book:Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts

Source: Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”

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Author:John W. Campbell

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

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Author:Shelley Berman

“Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.”

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Author:John Taylor Gatto

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

Source: A Gift of Wings

“I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.”

“I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.”

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Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.”

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Author:eL Seed

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can continue to do those things. It could be as a scientist, an educator, an editor, a journalist, the founder of an organization. You only live once, and it is a tragedy if you deny yourself these options without trying to pursue them.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

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Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

Source: Essays

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”

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Author:Bernard Williams

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.”

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Book:The Dancing Mind

Source: The Dancing Mind

“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”

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Author:John Y. Campbell

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“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.'”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.”

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Author:Linda Darling-Hammond

“If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.”

Source: Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times

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

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Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.”

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Book:Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

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