Book Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space…

— Kristy Swanson

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books…

— Richard Paul Evans

“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

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…

— Wendy Lesser

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if…

— Alain de Botton

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

“you're never alone when you are reading books. Reading awake your mind,enlighten your life and enrich your knowledge.”

— Anonymous

“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of…

— Will Durant