Books Quote by Margaret Atwood

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint…

— Paul Theroux

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

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a…

— Paulo Freire

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

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

People don't always read things the way they are intended.

— Kenneth Cole