Lawrence Block Quotes

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

You heard me. You ain't blind.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?

I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud.

Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

You need books to read and readers for books.

Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.

I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud at a very young age. I was very focused on English and building my vocabulary.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.