Betray Quote by Joseph P. Farrell

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case…

— Joseph P. Farrell

“When we read, we are spying on someone else’s imagination and inhabiting it; the authors and their characters are momentarily our friends, even if…

— Pamela Paul

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

— Arthur Sch

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true…

— Michael Connelly

“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior…

— Terry Marselle

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and…

— John Herschel

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

— Manuel Puig

“The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower…

— Novalis

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not…

— Jennifer Beals

If you read something and you want to do it, nothing gets in your way, you figure out how to bring that character to…

— Fred Hechinger

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer