Consciousness Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

“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

“Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which…

— Anna Quindlen

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough…

— Robert Alter

“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

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

— Jeanette Winterson

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another,…

— David Lodge

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And…

— Joshua Mohr