Reciprocal Reading Quotes

#1. The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.

Jack Kerouac

#3. When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#4. The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

Jean Rousset

#5. Once a sadhu offered me some land that he had, so that I could have an ashram for fellow Westerners. I asked Maharajji about it. He said, "He wants to give you his attachment. It's not a pure gift. If it were pure he'd just give it to you instead of talking about it." (R.D.)

Ram Dass

#6. O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

Samuel Wilberforce

#7. The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.

Daniel Pennac

#8. I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's ... ammunition.

Nikki Haley