Quotes: Reading (13).

Reading process 37 " …it is only during the brief pause between [eye] movements that we actually 'read.' ” Manguel, A History of Reading.

Reading process 38 "…imbue the text with something--emotion, physical sentience, intuition, knowledge, soul--that depends on who I am and how I became who I am." Manguel, A History of Reading. Individuals respond differently to what they read, depending on their personalities. RayS.

Reading process 38 Dr. Merlin C. Wittrock, in the 1980s: "…readers attend to the text…create images and verbal transformations to represent its meaning…generate meaning as they read by constructing relations between their knowledge, their memories of experience, and the written sentences, paragraphs and passages." Manguel, A History of Reading. Individuals respond differently to what they read, depending on their backgrounds. RayS.

Reading process 77 "First came the lectio, a grammatical analysis in which the syntactic elements of each sentence would be identified; this would lead to the littera or literal sense of the text…student acquired the sensus, the meaning of the text according to different established interpretations…process ended with an exegesis--the sententia--in which the opinions of approved commentators were discussed. Manguel, A History of Reading. A method of reading in sequential steps. Sounds as if individual readers were dependent on the interpretations and commentaries of others. Rays.

Reading process 267 " Like every reader, Rilke was also reading through his own experience." Manguel, A History of Reading. Readers construct meaning through their own experiences. RayS.