Books Quote by Wallace Stevens

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

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

Man is what he reads.

— Joseph Brodsky

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

“if you think about it, reading is just looking at words”

— Cookiecrumb

“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes…

— Rodney Ulyate