I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. Votes: 3
Rick SpringfieldI understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. Votes: 3
Sofia VergaraLearning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. Votes: 3
Queen Rania of JordanI can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue. Votes: 3
Angel CabreraWere you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! Votes: 3
Prince PhilipI grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. Votes: 3
John HopeEducation is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. Votes: 3
Ziauddin YousafzaiThe ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. Votes: 3
Alberto MoraviaThe more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. Votes: 3
Stephen KingShe asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too. Votes: 3
Sister SouljahTo read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. Votes: 3
Gail TsukiyamaWhen I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write. Votes: 3
Michael SheenNot being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. Votes: 3
YanniTeach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. Votes: 3
Thomas HuxleyIf we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. Votes: 3
Mark TwainJust a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. Votes: 3
Ella Wheeler WilcoxEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. Votes: 1
Barbara BushIf you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. Votes: 1
Jeanette WintersonEunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write. Votes: 0
Ruth RendellWrite the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterDon't read Variety. Don't listen to gossip. Don't live in L.A., and write. Votes: 0
Robert Mark KamenThose who read in a second language write and spell better in that language. Votes: 0
Stephen D. Krashenwrite what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write. Votes: 0
Nicholas SparksRise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerRead everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. Votes: 0
Lev GrossmanWe write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author Votes: 0
Frances Ridley HavergalWhen you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. Votes: 0
Jay AsherIndie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. Votes: 0
Temple Emmet WilliamsMore books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantWell, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. Votes: 0
Jack VanceYou shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead. Votes: 0
Will RogersI don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. Votes: 0
Kelley ArmstrongI don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. Votes: 0
John DarnielleI do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read. Votes: 0
Barbara MertzTo tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. Votes: 0
William SteigHow could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaSometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. Votes: 0
Ann PatchettHow could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write~? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaWhen Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. Votes: 0
Fran LebowitzI don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsMost writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. Votes: 0
Gore VidalWrite the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it. Votes: 0
J. A. KonrathStalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. Votes: 0
Jonathan LynnI read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read. Votes: 0
William TrevorI've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldPoetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. Votes: 0
Trevor McDonaldYou really can't write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about. Votes: 0
Harold BrodkeyI always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. Votes: 0
Jonathan Safran FoerI always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. Votes: 0
Janet FitchThe artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. Votes: 0
William FaulknerEveryone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. Votes: 0
Roy Peter ClarkRead as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. Votes: 0
William ShunnSilence has many advantagesâ¦I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverI myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. Votes: 0
Roman AbramovichRead and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft. Votes: 0
Henry PetroskiTo read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonWork. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better. Votes: 0
S.J. WatsonThe Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk. Votes: 0
Samael Aun WeorAll my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgIf you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Votes: 0
Stephen KingWhy a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write. Votes: 0
Chris BohjalianI write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. Votes: 0
Robert B. ParkerIf I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read. Votes: 0
Walt KellyI'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. Votes: 0
Steve EricksonTo be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to. Votes: 0
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsThe ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. Votes: 0
James GleickA native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake. Votes: 0
John AdamsMysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. Votes: 0
Fred SaberhagenIf people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonIt is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. Votes: 0
William HazlittWrite,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth. Votes: 0
Lori LansensI want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. Votes: 0
Donald HallFundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to. Votes: 0
Laurie FoosIf they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisI write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeEveryone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. Votes: 0
Chuck MiceliI knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. Votes: 0
Michael ShowalterI want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. Votes: 0
Robert DessaixThe only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodIf you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Votes: 0
Stephen KingIf there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Votes: 0
Toni MorrisonI learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. Votes: 0
Jonathan LethemThere is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. Votes: 0
Colleen McCulloughI write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerIn my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read. Votes: 0
Catherine the GreatI think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too. Votes: 0
Sarah MlynowskiI love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. Votes: 0
Mary MouserStory always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleI don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. Votes: 0
Lori LeskoRead books Votes: 3 Deliaha Hicks