I read my books aloud before they were published.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books…

— Paul Lisicky

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers…

— Robertson Davies

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about…

— Rick Perlstein

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

— Ray Bradbury

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

— Hal Needham

I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think.

— Khem Veasna

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in…

— Lin Yutang

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

— Adrienne Rich

“We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself; if they don’t sound slightly impossible then they aren’t set high enough.”

— Noel DeJesus

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

— Mary Oliver

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very…

— Andrew Wyeth

“Saying something aloud, anything coming from my heart was more than acknowledging it; it was owning it. I needed to hear the words come…

— Cari Kamm

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance…

— Patrick Rothfuss