We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read… — Maryanne Wolf Discern Copy Share Image
Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new. — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience. — Maryanne Wolf Entire Copy Share Image
Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading. — Maryanne Wolf Fine Copy Share Image
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. — Maryanne Wolf Ability Copy Share Image
Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium! — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself… — Maryanne Wolf Apologist Copy Share Image
I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful. — Maryanne Wolf Education Copy Share Image
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By… — Maryanne Wolf Language Copy Share Image
I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions. — Maryanne Wolf Always Copy Share Image
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out. — Maryanne Wolf Bear Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about… — Maryanne Wolf Being Copy Share Image
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if… — Maryanne Wolf Children Copy Share Image
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories… — Maryanne Wolf Children Copy Share Image
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and… — Maryanne Wolf Attention Copy Share Image
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a… — Maryanne Wolf Change Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Critical analysis Copy Share Image
I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Critical analysis Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans… — Maryanne Wolf Born Copy Share Image
We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past… — Maryanne Wolf Extraordinary Copy Share Image
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one… — Maryanne Wolf Achievement Copy Share Image
Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and… — Maryanne Wolf Believe Copy Share Image
What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think. — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Fail Copy Share Image
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
