Robert Hass Quotes

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

Reading is more important than writing.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

We read often with as much talent as we write.

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.