Accepted Quote by Mary Karr

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

— Joseph Addison

“Reading good literature is not so different then taking good drugs, do it enough and it will certainly alter your mind. The drugs can…

— Andrew James Pritchard

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

— Jose Saramago

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

— Will Schwalbe

Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to…

— Nora Ephron

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

— Alan Bennett

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

— Joe Strummer

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book…

— Phillip Adams

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 yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates