Convinced Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine…

— Terry Pratchett

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

— Italo Calvino

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

— Anonymous

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept…

— Augustus Hare

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

— Joan Didion

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

— Joseph Addison

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

— David L. Ulin

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

— John Adams

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

— Conor Oberst

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment…

— William Lashner

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

— Pico Iyer

I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it.…

— Joan Didion