Quote by George Eliot

“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.”

— Gerry Abbey

“Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

— Oscar Wilde

“There were many markings in pencil, and those strange symbols again, dashed off, it seemed, revealing their opacity what a complex and abstract thing…

— Anne Rice

“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…

— Pearl S. Buck

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.”

— Cicero

“We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are…

— Darynda Jones

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say…

— Albert Camus

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

— Friedrich Kittler

“There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.”

— John Corvino

“A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other’s key.”

— Piet Hein

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story—there’s a technical aspect.

— Angela Bassett

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors…

— John Green