There was nothing worse than hearing your own fears spoken…

“She had been ready to kill Da, ready for years, but now she was amazed to find that she had done something even more…

— Erika Johansen

“her true name is never spoken aloud.”

— Kris Waldherr

“Damiãno is hot,” Lucia murmured, then realized she’d spoken aloud. “And by that, I mean, I respect his mind.”

— Kresley Cole

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Words need not be spoken aloud, friend, to prove unwelcome. I but answered my own thoughts.”

— Steven Erikson

“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