Reading And Writing Quotes - Page 5

• Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

  Sharon Creech

  Reading, Writing, Listening

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• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

  Patti Smith

  Reading, Writing, Long

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

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• It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can refine what we're doing musically. Also how we can create our own music, and what opportunities that can bring us, as creative musicians. And then insisting that musicians put themselves through an intellectually rigorous process, which involves a lot of reading and writing, while insisting that music scholars think about ethics.

  Vijay Iyer

  Reading, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Richard Powers

  Reading, Writing, Eye

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

  John Lubbock

  Education, Reading, Teaching

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

  Sheryl Crow

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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• 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.

  Ian Rankin

  Short Love, Reading, Writing

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Reading

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Reading, Writing, College

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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

  Country, Children, Reading

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

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• 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.

  Jamie Oliver

  Reading, Writing, School

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• In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or tragedy or titillation or grossness or even sentimentality can move us, but how the written word elicits delight - what Nabokov calls that shiver in the spine - is much harder to calculate and define.

  Alice McDermott

  Lying, Reading, Moving

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

  Tim Hecker

  Reading, Writing, Study

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Men, age 25 to 55, the labor-force participation rate is down 10%. That's unbelievable. There are 35,000 dying of opioids every year. Seventy percent of kids age 17 to 24 can't get into the US military because of health or education. Obesity, diabetes, reading and writing. Is that the society we wanted? No. We should be working on these things, acknowledge the flaws we have, and come up with solutions. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not knee-jerk.

  Jamie Dimon

  Military, Reading, Kids

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently people want to write their own story. Sometimes it is straight history - this is how we came about, how our town was created, a lot of that kind of effort, as soon as literacy came. The first thing you wanted to do was to put something down about who you are or how you are related to you neighbors. Then the next stage would be the stories, the cultural part of the story: this is the kind of world our ancestors made or aspired to.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reading, Writing, People

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Selfish, Drinking

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• 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.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

  Eoin Colfer

  Reading, Writing, School

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• 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.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Reading, Writing, White

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• 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.

  Hojo Soun

  Friendship, Reading, Writing

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.397

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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Reading, Writing, Light

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