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> [The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well as extra milliseconds for any expert to read a more sophisticated text.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/the-integration-of-the-simpler-and-the-deeper-reading-processes-is/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

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> [We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/we-are-the-worst-of-fools-if-we-do-not-teach-every-child-to-become/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

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## More by Maryanne Wolf

> [There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/there-s-a-richness-that-reading-gives-you-an-opportunity-to-probe/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/the-act-of-learning-to-read-added-an-entirely-new-circuit-to-our/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/skimming-has-led-i-believe-to-a-tendency-to-go-to-the-sources-that/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [The brain is constantly adapting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/the-brain-is-constantly-adapting/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/we-humans-invented-literacy-which-means-it-doesn-t-come-for-free-with/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/the-same-plasticity-that-allows-us-to-form-a-reading-circuit-to-begin/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/if-you-word-spot-james-joyce-you-ll-miss-the-entire-experience/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/there-are-few-more-powerful-mirrors-of-the-human-brain-s-astonishing/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/we-have-to-move-into-the-21st-century-but-we-should-do-so-with-great/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [The brain is plastic its whole life span.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/the-brain-is-plastic-its-whole-life-span/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/i-am-an-apologist-for-the-reading-brain-it-represents-a-miracle-that/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read-we-invented-reading-and-then/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/when-we-have-any-function-whether-it-s-language-or-vision-or/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/every-opportunity-to-practice-is-a-gift-to-the-developing-reader/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

> [Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/each-young-reader-has-to-fashion-an-entirely-new-reading-circuit/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

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