Able Quote by Laura Furman

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

— Anna Quindlen

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and…

— Clifton Fadiman

“Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and…

— Mark Haddon

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point.…

— Steven Pinker

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

— Steven Pinker

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of…

— Harold Brodkey

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

— Celeste Ng

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

When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake…

— Anonymous

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

— Daniel J. Boorstin