Books Quote by Nicholas Carr

“hypertext readers often “could not remember what they had and had not read.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more,…

— Nicholas Carr

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

— David L. Ulin

That awkward moment when you finish reading a page, and have absolutely no idea what you just read!..

— SoVeryAwkward

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out…

— Maryanne Wolf

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

— Conor Oberst

“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and jiggle my…

— Dan Chaon

“Reading is a distraction from comprehension.”

— Eric Bentsen

“Just like a constant diet of fast food makes us flabby, so too a constant intake of social media to the neglect of books…

— Aimee Byrd

I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a…

— Ron Currie Jr

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

— Robert James