Books Quote by Elizabeth Freeman

“The cognitively unsound concept of “close reading” Author”

— Terry Marselle

“To call for close reading, in fact, is to do more than insist on due attentiveness to the text. It inescapably suggests an attention…

— Terry Eagleton

“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to…

— Madame Guyon

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of…

— Harold Brodkey

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse…

— Walter Tevis

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin

“Reading is the most special of therapies for ending a tension-filled day.”

— Shanthi Gopalan

“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove…

— Elena Ferrante