Air Quote by Nick Hornby

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

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 has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

“We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for…

— Manguel Alberto

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a…

— Rebecca Mead

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude…

— H. G. Wells

“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 an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin

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 the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have…

— Joe Queenan