Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

— Julian Barnes

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

— Socrates

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

— Phaedrus

“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at a given…

— Phillip Lewis

“A thinking mind returns to its subject.”

— Preeti MIshra

“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing, of the…

— Nicholas Carr

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

— Severus Snape

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

— William Gibson

“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his…

— arthur schopenhauer

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J. K. Rowling