Book Quote by Cynthia Heimel

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a…

— Rebecca Mead

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

— Anonymous

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

— Eric Thomas

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh.…

— Karin Slaughter

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp

“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking…

— Noam Chomsky

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

— Roberto Bolano

Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve their mental…

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer