Absorb Quote by Diana Athill

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a…

— Paulo Freire

Every text assumes a reader.

— Alberto Manguel

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 reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone.…

— Neil Postman

“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches…

— Dani Harper

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page,…

— Anonymous

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal…

— Ernest Dimnet

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the…

— Leni Zumas

“I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than not, it's…

— Kelly Corrigan

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

— Edmund Burke

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

— Bill Cosby