Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.