Read Aloud Quotes

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
- Thomas Bowdler

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
- Beverly Cleary

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
- Roald Dahl

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
- Bob Edwards

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
- Anne Fadiman

I love to read aloud.
- Cornelia Funke

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
- Alberto Manguel

To know the difference,
you must run this mountain without pause. In the evening or the afternoon, you must cross the first fields waking
to your footsteps, stormwashed at the foothills.
In the evening or the afternoon, in the closing of a shadowline, you must read aloud the reddened last words of this canyon's leaves to the trees that clap their hands.
- Naomi Shihab Nye

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
- Andrew Wyeth