Books Quote by Maryanne Wolf

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and…

— George Saunders

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better…

— Nora Ephron

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means…

— Alexander Theroux

“Learning to read gave us a true oasis, salvation, in the same way that coming to know Jesus or the Buddha might eventually get…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Anonymous

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better…

— Nora Ephron

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is…

— Maryanne Wolf

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to…

— Aldous Huxley

“Reading reverses the aging of the brain and keeps your brain healthy and young.”

— Rosalyn Noel

“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

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem