Attention Quote by Judith Viorst

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with…

— John Scalzi

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really…

— James Patterson

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and…

— Nick Tosches

We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're still open…

— Sofia Quintero

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to…

— Harvey Weinstein

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't…

— Cressida Cowell

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

— Lewis Hamilton

“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.”

— 2000 National Reading Panel

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and…

— Dave Gibbons

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare…

— Anonymous