Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“It would be better to try to awake the reader’s critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.”

— Albert Camus

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

— Harold Bloom

“Since when does reading suck? Who says that? If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to go. Boom.…

— Skyla Madi

“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.”

— Chad Harbach

“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.”

— Tat Wood

“Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is…

— J Oswald Sanders

“Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be…

— Dan Wilbur

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“reading is the equivallent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Sch

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

“one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.”

— Gloria Steinem