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

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

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”

Cammie McGovern

“One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.”

John Berryman (1914–1972) American poet

“You must be ready to take all your responsibilities upon your head, instead of relying upon someone else to do all the dirty work for you.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read it out loud instead of sending it.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.”

Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

“If they are destroying a flag that belongs to someone else, that's a prosecutable crime. If it is a flag they own, I really don't want to amend the Constitution to prosecute someone for foolishly desecrating their own property. We should condemn them and pity them instead.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

“I'm losing Savanna.
That's good. No one should own someone else.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist