Affirming Quote by Sofia Quintero

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an…

— Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”

— Dermot Davis

“Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own…

— Gladys Hunt

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

— M. John Harrison

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread…

— James Russell Lowell

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a…

— Rey Mysterio

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

I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.

— Elaine Welteroth

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does,…

— Anne McCaffrey

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

— Anne Lamott