"We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is o…"

"reading is at the beginning of the social contract"

"I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords."

"A book brings its own history to the reader."

"I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon what…"

"Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the wo…"

"Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first defi…"

"The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bic…"

"In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dep…"

"I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing…"