Read Aloud Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the… — Terry Pratchett
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read… — Teju Cole
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud,… — L. Tom Perry
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web… — Henry Green
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — 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
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a… — Jacqueline Wilson
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired… — Neil Gaiman
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every… — Mem Fox
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his… — Jan Karon
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in… — Beverly Cleary
I love to read aloud. — Cornelia Funke
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for… — Alberto Manguel
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. — Anne Fadiman

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