Beads Quote by Terry Eagleton

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

— Louise Rosenblatt

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

— Friedrich Kittler

“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.”

— Robert James

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,…

— Margaret Atwood

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

— Paul de Man

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads…

— David Mitchell

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

— Charles M. Schulz

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

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their…

— William Zinsser

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

— Bill Cosby

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

— Blaise Pascal