Function Quote by Friedrich Kittler

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

— Terry Eagleton

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

— Siri Hustvedt

“The lines and lights of the human countenance are like other symbols,–not always easy to read without a key.”

— George Eliot

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

— Laura Furman

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

— Eddie Griffin

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

— Serge Schmemann

Reading begets reading.

— Nick Hornby

“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”

— Nathan Filer

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read…

— Jenny Zhang

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Don’t you think the stairs are a good place for reading letters? I do. One is somehow suspended. One is on neutral ground -…

— Katherine Mansfield

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

— Alejandro Zambra