Breathing Quote by Alberto Manguel

We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for…

— Joan Bauer

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I…

— Sven Birkerts

“Reading is to writing what breathing is to living.”

— Diane Mae Robinson

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only…

— Mary Butts

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

— Anonymous

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

— James Russell Lowell

“Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther, reading is…

— Edith Wharton

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one…

— Anonymous