Books Quote by Maria Montessori

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

— Mark Haddon

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and…

— Mohammed Dib

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for…

— Marilyn Jager Adams

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later,…

— Mem Fox

With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But I do…

— Don Winslow

What is reading but silent conversation?

— Anonymous

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a…

— Annie Dillard

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly…

— Anne Tyler

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I…

— Teju Cole

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin