Reading Efficiency Quotes

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

Great books conserve time.

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

I've tried to slow this down but realized that my natural reading rhythm is freakishly fast when an author friend asked me to go through the manuscript of her soon-to-be-published book for continuity errors.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

I read poetry to save time.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.