Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Reading is more important than writing.

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

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

I'm not very good at standard English.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

The cornerstone of education is an easy system of reading and writing. The hey to this is the new Turkish alphabet based on the Latin script.

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

When I first came to this country I could not speak English. Now I get paid to write it.

I can read and write in Hindi.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

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.

Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

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

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

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

…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.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.