Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“But if someone had slowed him down, just slightly interrupted his course, maybe he could have gotten through that one nightmarish moment; maybe he…

— Frederick Barthelme

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall…

— Haruki Murakami

“He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word.…

— William Faulkner

“And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I read my sentence - steadily . . .”

— Emily Dickinson

“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel…

— Flannery O'Connor

“He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.”

— Stephen Baxter

“He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are…

— David Grossman

“It was exactly as he’d thought it would be, like the first time and the millionth time all at once, like being wide awake,…

— Jennifer E. Smith