Anna Quindlen: Quotes about reading

Anna Quindlen is journalist, Novelist. Explore interesting quotes on reading.

Anna Quindlen: 68 quotes2 likes

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."

[, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]”