Critical analysis Quote by Maryanne Wolf

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of…

— Maryanne Wolf

The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you…

— Tim Wynne-Jones

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves…

— Harold Bloom

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read -…

— Paul Auster

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of…

— Cynthia Heimel

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

— Steven Pinker

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose…

— Maryanne Wolf