Books Quote by Alan Bennett

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

— David Lodge

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

— Laurie Helgoe

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

— Anonymous

“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.”

— Tat Wood

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another,…

— David Lodge

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

— Anonymous

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

— David L. Ulin