Language Quote by Maryanne Wolf

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

— Maryanne Wolf

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read…

— Maryanne Wolf

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively…

— Maryanne Wolf

The brain is constantly adapting.

— Maryanne Wolf

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it…

— Maryanne Wolf

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow…

— Maryanne Wolf

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

— Maryanne Wolf

“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act…

— Maryanne Wolf

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the…

— Maryanne Wolf

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

— Maryanne Wolf

I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn…

— Maryanne Wolf

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