Bent Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he…

— Erin Morgenstern

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

— Wallace Stevens

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

— John Green

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

— Khalil Gibran

Will the reader turn the page?

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word.…

— William Faulkner

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

— Roland Barthes

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to…

— Madame Guyon

“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to…

— Diane Setterfield

“Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however…

— St. Teresa Of Avila

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon