Books Quote by David L. Ulin Download Open image “Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.” — David L. Ulin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Distraction Landscape Reading Resistance
“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 Copy Share Image
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter,… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
