Speed Reading Quotes

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

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

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

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

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

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

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I finished 1,100 books in six weeks.

I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.

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

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.