Reading Quote by Daniel Ehrenhaft

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

— Mercedes McCambridge

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

— Henry Miller

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

— Marilyn vos Savant

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

— Mercedes McCambridge

“It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it…

— Kathryn Alesandrini

“Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Reading is a distraction from comprehension.”

— Eric Bentsen

“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.”

— Robert James

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

— Alexander Hamilton

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write…

— Salman Rushdie

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think…

— Callie Khouri

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley