Books Quote by Irving Stone

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of…

— Irving Stone

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

— Irving Stone

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

“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, 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

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

— Bennett Cerf

“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…

— Rose Vane

“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained…

— Alena Graedon

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Reading is the journey of those who cannot take the train. . .

— Rick Sutter

“Reading is getting lost in a world of your choosing without having to feel the physical pain ~ Me.”

— Musicinto