Allen Stein

“Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“The end of reading development doesn’t exist; the unending story of reading moves ever forward, leaving the eye, the tongue, the word, the author for a new place from which the “truth breaks forth, fresh and green,” changing the brain and the reader every time.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“WE WERE NEVER BORN TO READ. HUMAN BEINGS invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain