Aspect Quote by Isabel Allende

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And…

— Joshua Mohr

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the…

— Albert Hofmann

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and…

— John M. Ford

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

— Guy Davenport

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

— William Shakespeare

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

— Robert Greene

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to…

— Aldous Huxley

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Kate DiCamillo

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust