Attention span Quote by Dick Meyer

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

— Lewis Hamilton

“Millions of those who are watching...can read hardly at all. Millions more can read the words but cannot understand them. Of those who can…

— Walter Lippmann

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a…

— Tim Frick

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

— Marco Arment

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff;…

— Tom Junod

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences…

— Harry Beckwith

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

— Robert James

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

— Janet Evanovich

“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.”

— Ken Scott

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace…

— Martin Millar

“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks…

— Dr. Seuss

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third…

— Ian Mcewan