For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your…

“Speaking the words aloud so they would exist in the world and begin to become real.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them.”

— Betty Smith

“I'm used to people talking, saying words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they're better than me. But they're just words.…

— Katie McGarry

“But Lord! once one began mouthing words aloud, how silly they sounded!”

— Virginia Woolf

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

— Harry Kemelman

“If you spoke something aloud, it made it real. Ignore it for long enough and it might go away. Only it never did. It…

— Victoria Jenkins

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

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

— Bob Edwards

“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

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

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

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