Ancient Quote by Hershel Shanks

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the…

— Jacques Derrida

Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original…

— Alberto Manguel

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in…

— Andrea diSessa

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

— Elie Wiesel

“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books…

— Daniel Harms

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

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running.…

— Colm Feore

“How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part…

— Diana Athill

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer,…

— Claudia Rankine

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the…

— E. J. W. Barber