Reading and writing Quote by Elena Ferrante

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

“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

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

— Anne Lamott

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

— Siri Hustvedt

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point.…

— Steven Pinker

“Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and…

— Mark Haddon

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better…

— Nora Ephron

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

— David L. Ulin

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

— Augusten Burroughs