“We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.”

“We are constantly reading and listening to, writing and speaking, this text in the context of and against the background of other texts and other discourses.”

“I personally regret the shift in literary study from reading primary texts to reading critical and theoretical texts. The major problem today among students is that they simply have not read enough literature. Consequently they do not have the necessary background to take a critical attitude towards literary theory. One needs to test every abstraction against experience.”

“It is a general observation that people write as they read. As a rule, careful writers are careful readers and vice versa. A careful writer wants to be read carefully. He cannot know what it means to be read carefully but by having done careful reading himself. Reading precedes writing. We read before we write. We learn to write by reading. A man learns to write well by reading well good books, by reading most carefully books which are most carefully written.”

“The words you can't find, you borrow.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”

“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”

“The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.”

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”

“We should read much, we should not read many books.”
Multum legendum esse, non multa.

“All meaning is intertextual. No text is complete or autonomous in itself; it needs to be read, and it is read, in relation to other texts.”