Amusement Quote by Susan Sontag

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin

“Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if…

— Dan Simmons

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

“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

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”

— Toba Beta

“Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.”

— Leigh M. Lane

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds,…

— Ben Okri

“Reading in no way obliges us to understand.”

— Jacques Lacan

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

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

— Anonymous