Quotes About Speed Reading

#1. The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.

Tony Buzan

#2. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.

William Peter Blatty

#3. I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

Steven Wright

#4. I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

#5. 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

#6. I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

Steven Wright

#7. I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

Brian Regan

#8. I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

Michael Dirda

#9. The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

Charles M. Schulz

#10. I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'.

Steven Wright

#11. In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

Satya Nadella

#12. If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Deb Caletti

#13. Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.

It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension.

Peter Rogers

#14. The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Mark Van Doren

#15. Turn, Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

Ally Carter

#16. One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

Walter Kirn

#17. I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

Northrop Frye

#19. If you don't know, recognise that you don't know. If you know, acknowledge that you know. That is knowledge.

Confucius

#20. In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

Julia Gillard

#21. Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Robert Greene

#22. I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov

#23. Well, girls love Justin Bieber ... But real women have Letogasms

Jared Leto

#24. Bast had insisted we keep everyone up-to-speed on the regular subjects like math and reading, although she did sometimes add her own elective courses, such as Advanced Cat Grooming, or Napping. There was a waiting list to get into Napping.

Rick Riordan

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

Mortimer J. Adler

#26. Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Marc Davis

#27. It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

Omar Bongo

#28. For Our Purposes, I define "reading" as looking at printed words and getting enough meaning from them to satisfy your purpose.

Peter Kump

#29. You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

Walter B. Pitkin

#30. When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

Carrie Vaughn

#31. I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

J.J. Abrams

#32. Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

Martine Leavitt

#33. I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

Suzanne Somers

#34. Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

Maria V. Snyder

#35. I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Jeanette Winterson

#36. I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.

Woody Allen

#37. I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

Robert Harris