Books Quote by Ravi Subramanian

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

— Janet Evanovich

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

— Haruki Murakami

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

— Paul Haggis

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels…

— Graham Swift

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader…

— Susan Cheever

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to…

— David Morrell

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

— Dr. Seuss

Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

— Karin Slaughter

All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away.

— Michael Connelly

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

— Dr. Seuss

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock