Book Quote by Tom Bissell Download Open image “Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.” — Tom Bissell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Giving Identity Reading Self Thinking
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“reading is the equivallent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Sch Copy Share Image
“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Games such as Mass Effect allow the gamer a freedom of decision that can be evilly enlivening or nobly self-congratulating, but these games become… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
