Brain Quote by Douglas R. Hofstadter

“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.”

— Anna Quindlen

“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.”

— A.W. Tozer

“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.”

— Stewart Stafford

“Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings,” wrote Paul. “Brain science shows this claim is truer…

— Terry Marselle

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

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

— Anonymous

“WARNING: Brain dribble from a writer could cause good literature for the reader.”

— Brick Marlin

“What capacity could have renovated your brain, endowing you with new, specialised skills as well as inducing specific codnitive deficits? This exotic mental ability…

— Joseph Henrich

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We know that reading changes the way we think. Among other things, it helps us formulate thoughts that are more abstract, categorical, and logical.”

— The Penguin Press

“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how…

— Sarah Manguso