Common Quote by Tom Shippey

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I seem to…

— Italo Calvino

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading…

— Diane Setterfield

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you…

— Richard Louv

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're…

— Alexandra Breckenridge

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind…

— Robertson Davies

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when…

— Thomas Hobbes

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

— Harold Bloom

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer