Absolute Quote by Colm Toibin

Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and…

— Maggie O'Farrell

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I…

— Anonymous

I still have a stammer. I hate it; I loathe and despise it. But it's always there, and I have lots of ways to…

— Maggie O'Farrell

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

— David Mitchell

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

— Suzanne Collins

I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that…

— Gareth Gates

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

— Tahereh Mafi

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I…

— Simon Schama

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

— Ken Venturi

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell…

— Anonymous

Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

— Gareth Gates