Books Quote by Edith Wharton

“Reading is to writing what breathing is to living.”

— Diane Mae Robinson

“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than…

— Mark Edmundson

“If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.”

— Laura Holford-Green

“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

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

— Pam Allyn

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

— LeVar Burton

“Reading is like breathing. Reading the classics is like breathing highly oxygenated air.”

— Jane Greensmith

“Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and…

— Asa Don Brown

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

“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