Else Quote by Pete Buttigieg

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be…

— Diane Setterfield

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And…

— Joshua Mohr

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading,…

— Neil Gaiman

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack.…

— John Connolly

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

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett