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“hemisphere dominates for speech, writing, mathematical ability, logic and analysis. The right hemisphere dominates for perception, spatial ability, musical and artistic abilities, imagery and…

— Open University

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be…

— Diane Setterfield

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

“Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is left hemisphere…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes…

— George Saunders

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if…

— Johnny Cash

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of…

— Sydney J. Harris

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

— Dav Pilkey

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

— Lauren Groff

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own…

— Albert Einstein

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young