Books Quote by Mark Kurlansky

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

— Franklin P. Jones

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 learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting…

— James Frey

“A good speed reading course should therefore teach you to read at many different speeds, not just one speed that is faster than anything…

— Mortimer J. Adler

The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more…

— Tony Buzan

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

— Dakota Blue Richards

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me…

— Bruce Dern

“Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“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'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

“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed…

— Donald Hall

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so…

— Stephen Sondheim