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Maryanne Wolf

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote ‘Proust and the Squid,’ I received truly hundreds of letters – I’m still receiving them – and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

– Maryanne Wolf

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 it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

Reading is a bridge to thought.

– Maryanne Wolf

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 challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

Focused reading is so important, and I’m just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

When we have any function, whether it’s language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren’t dealing with a straight line to the brain that says ‘This is what I do.’ The brain builds a network of connections, a network of neurons that have a particular role in that function.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read – critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another’s perspective.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

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

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it’s not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

– Maryanne Wolf

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 content with the surface.

– Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language – when you watch a film or listen to a tape – you don’t press pause.

– Maryanne Wolf

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