Books Quote by Joshua Rogers

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means…

— Alexander Theroux

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 can lead a person towards better tomorrow.”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

“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 way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

“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

“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

“Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?”

— Damien Echols

“Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.”

— Christopher Earle

“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.”

— Harold Bloom

“The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how…

— Michael Upchurch

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin