I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the…

I'm writin music..I think aloud when I think off loud.

— Wale

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

— Robert Fitzgerald

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I…

— Alan Garner

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a…

— Frank Delaney

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how…

— Jodi Picoult

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I…

— Teju Cole

“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already…

— Anonymous

I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience…

— T.C. Boyle

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and…

— Masiela Lusha

“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”

— Truman Capote

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

— Bob Edwards

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

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