Able Quote by Paul Otlet

One can transform a place by reading in it.

— Alberto Manguel

“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking.”

— Steven Pinker

Once humans realize the capacity of their reach everything will become visible and understandable.

— Tasneem Hameed

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective…

— Mike Colter

“A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world”

— Brenda Ashworth Barry

“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper…

— Duncan Smith

If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his…

— Gao Xingjian

In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

“When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity-- how…

— Gerald Edelman

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

— Bill Gates

“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating…

— Barbara Klein Moss

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson