Affair Quote by Terry Eagleton

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

— Italo Calvino

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

— Alberto Manguel

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,…

— Margaret Atwood

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“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 is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

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 a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the…

— Joshua Rogers

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

— Laurie Helgoe

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer