Barbara Bush Quotes

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

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

I don't believe in reading. I don't care about reading. It means nothing to me. I believe that by using your eyes and ears, you'll find everything that there is, and you don't have to read about it.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

I like to read and understand.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Reading is more important than writing.

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

…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.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

You can't write if you don't read.