Reading Fatigue Quotes

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.

All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.

When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'