Asking Quote by David L. Ulin

“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

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey

I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are…

— Ari Berk

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

— Anonymous

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

— Hugh Prather

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through…

— Lynne Truss

“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel…

— Thomas Newkirk

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

— Helen Keller

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— John Locke