Aim Quote by Umberto Eco

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

“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

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a…

— Sven Birkerts

“Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a rebellion: we…

— Hélène Cixous

“It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the…

— Irving Stone

“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned…

— Margaret Bald

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

“Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless”

— Katherine Rundell

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara