Books Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

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 gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where…

— Taylor Swift

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and…

— Helen Keller

“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

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting…

— Van Morrison

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

— Virginia Woolf