Blank Quote by Milorad Pavić

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and…

— Helen Keller

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

— Iain Banks

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it…

— Corbin Bleu

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering…

— Ray Bradbury

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

— Harold Bloom

There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us…

— Carol Bly

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The smell of books is the smell of us all coming together to document, entertain, and explain things for ourselves now and forever. It's…

— Neil Pasricha