Reading and Writing Quotes
Top 15 Reading and Writing
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotesflau.jpg)
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read
in order to live.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French writer (pictured right).
No 2![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-johnson.jpg)
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709–84), English writer, pictured right.
No 3![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-hawthorne.jpg)
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), American writer, pictured right.
![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-boileau.jpg)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), pictured right, the French poet, says editing
is the hard part of writing:
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-pascal.jpg)
Blaise Pascal (1623–62),
French scientist and philosopher, pictured right, makes a similar comment
I have made this [letter] longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
No 4![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotesconn3.jpg)
Better to write for yourself and have no public than write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly (1903-74), English writer, pictured right.
No 5![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-bacon.jpg)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to
weigh and consider.
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626),
English philosopher, pictured right.
No 6![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-bagehot.jpg)
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
- Walter Bagehot (1826–77), English economist, pictured right.
No 7![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-de-quincy.jpg)
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power.
- Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English writer, pictured right.
No 8![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-eleanor.jpg)
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
- Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962), American human rights campaigner , pictured right.
No 9![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-truman.jpg)
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), American
president, pictured right.
No 10![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-bourget.jpg)
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
- Paul Bourget (1852–1935), French writer, pictured right.
No 11![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-keynes.jpg)
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking.
- John Maynard
Keynes (1883-1946), English economist, pictured right.
No 12![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-twain.jpg)
'Classic'. A book which people praise and don't read.
- Mark
Twain (1835-1910), American writer, pictured right.
![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-levitt.jpg)
Theodore (Ted) Levitt (1925-2006), pictured right, the
American marketing writer, also comments:
If people don't read what you write, then what you write is a museum piece.
No 13![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-douglass.jpg)
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
- Frederick
Douglass (1818-1895), pictured right, African American abolitionist.
No 14![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-skinner.jpg)
We shouldn’t teach great books, we should teach a love of reading,
- B.F. Skinner (1904-90),
pictured right, American psychologist.
No 15![Reading and Writing Quotes Reading and Writing Quotes](images/quotes-rowling.jpg)
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not...it is the power that enables
us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- J.K. Rowling (1965-), English
writer, pictured right
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