Books Quote by Mark Edmundson

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.”

— Anonymous

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther, reading is…

— Edith Wharton

“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

“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

“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)”

— Francisco de Quevedo

“reading expands the mind and the imagination!!!”

— Lori

“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the…

— Penelope Lively

“We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious…

— Tony Reinke

“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