“Jasnah Kholin's words read.”

“Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?”
“I… had trouble concentrating.”
“So you came up on deck,” Jasnah said, “to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this toyour concentration?”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

“Before they read words, children are reading pictures.”

David Wiesner (1956) American children's illustrator and writer

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”

Gail Giles (1955) American writer

“Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher

“When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.”

Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman

“Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.”

Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) United States federal judge

“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet: Between who?
Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet