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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or…

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Anonymous

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

— Eric Thomas

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

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

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to…

— Eric Ripert

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me…

— Nora Ephron

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

— George Pelecanos

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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