Quote by Paul de Man Download Open image “If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.” — Paul de Man ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.” — Robert James Copy Share Image
I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Reading without understanding is like swallowing food without chewing. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of… — Laura Hendrie Copy Share Image
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“...asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers the question: "What's the… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.” — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
