Defeat Quote by Rose Vane

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

“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

“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.”

— Anonymous

“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“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

“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful as an…

— Gregory Day

“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a…

— Sven Birkerts

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

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

— Giuseppe Bianco