Reading Writing Quotes (page 14)

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• thinking
• good
• believe

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Charles Kuralt

• effort
• time
• book

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. Tracy Kidder

• reading
• tough
• understanding

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. David Remnick

• reading
• writing
• german

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. Rick Reilly

• play
• reading
• sports

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' Mitch Albom

• universe
• writing
• reading

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. Kurt Vonnegut

• believe
• little
• hard

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Stephen King

• reading
• writing
• reads

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. Jeanette Winterson

• time
• simple
• reading

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King

• book
• reading
• writing

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. Fran Lebowitz

• enough
• kids
• school

When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too. Bell Hooks

• friend
• struggle
• hard

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge--desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138] Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

• black
• black color
• hard

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Aldous Huxley

• reading
• writing
• hard

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi

• book
• reading
• writing

If there's a book you want to read and it hasn't been written yet you must write it. Toni Morrison