Ball game Quote by Alena Graedon

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

“Why just read the writing? Write the reading!”

— Jesse B. Booth

“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

“we only read when you write”

— Ian Hunter

“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”

— Robynn Tolbert

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski

“Trying to write without reading is like venturing out to sea all by yourself in a small boat: lonely and dangerous. Wouldn't you rather…

— Téa Obreht

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of…

— Harold Brodkey

“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!”

— Kelley Lovelace

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“People stop thinking when they cease to read.”

— Denis Diderot