If you spoke something aloud, it made it real. Ignore it…

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him…

— Sarah Dessen

“It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a…

— Robin McKinley

“Hardly anything remained of which he could speak aloud.”

— Peter Nadas

“The thing he said aloud did not succeed.”

— Tony Burgess

When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.

— Amanda Hocking

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

— Harry Kemelman

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