Books Quote by Donald Hall

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do…

— Mark Kurlansky

“The important thing is not so much to read fast, as to read each book at the speed it deserves. It is as regrettable…

— Jacques Bonnet

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and…

— Nicholson Baker

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study…

— Stephen King

“..."(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is not so…

— Jacques Bonnet

“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.”

— Charles Van Doren

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary…

— Anonymous

“Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a “teacher of…

— Anonymous

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and…

— Gabriel García Márquez