“There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. ...” — Maryanne Wolf Quote

“There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.”

“Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.”

“Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.”

“Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”

“People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.”

“We feel like we experienced probably two to three years of growth in 18 months. You couldn't probably responsibly plan for a pandemic or the amount of capacity that's needed.”