Bridge Quote by Maryanne Wolf

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Anonymous

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

— Eddie Griffin

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp