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

"A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading."

"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…"

"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…"