Books Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

— Anonymous

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

— Manuel Rivas

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

— Italo Calvino

Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you…

— Deborah Eisenberg

I consider reading to be part of my job.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

— Laurie Helgoe

“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches…

— Daisaku Ikeda