Brain Quote by Maryanne Wolf

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday…

— Anonymous

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act…

— Marita Golden

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult…

— Martin Amis

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language…

— Iris Murdoch

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page,…

— Anonymous

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're…

— Aaron Belz

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

— Siri Hustvedt

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

— Maryanne Wolf