Books Quote by Nina Bernstein

“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

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

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

“Reading is a window that reflects a whole new world”

— Muatau

“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our…

— Alberto Manguel

“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what…

— Rick Gekoski

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

“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