Books Quote by Marina Simcoe

“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 an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”

— Kim Holden

“People who read always have something interesting to say.”

— Anonymous

“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

“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”

— Dermot Davis

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

— Harold Bloom

“Well, to me the purpose of reading, or in my case listening, is to be taken somewhere else. I want to be transformed and…

— Erika Ashby

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

“Reading is getting lost in a world of your choosing without having to feel the physical pain ~ Me.”

— Musicinto

“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you hate them,…

— Daniel Nayeri

“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”

— Rorke Denver

“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find…

— G.K. Chesterton