Book Quote by Italo Calvino

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what…

— Terry Eagleton

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an…

— Amalia Kahana-Carmon

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 dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp

“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

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,

— Jennifer Egan

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have…

— Joe Queenan

Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.

— Marley Dias

Reading is something most people do every day and I didn't know it would mean so much to me.

— Jay Blades

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

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 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