Bedtime Quote by Carl Honore

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are…

— Lois Lowry

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was…

— Gene Luen Yang

“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a “teacher of…

— Anonymous

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

— Janet Evanovich

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

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

— Honor Blackman

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

— Keira Knightley

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book…

— Sarah Dessen

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do…

— Mark Kurlansky

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