Anger Quote by Arlo Bates

“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a…

— Sven Birkerts

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

“Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.”

— David McDonald

“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the…

— Susan Sontag

“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how I escape,…

— Will Schwalbe

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for…

— Doris Lessing

“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the…

— Eudora Welty

“It would be better to try to awake the reader’s critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.”

— Albert Camus