Arthur Balfour Quotes

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

I read part of it all the way through.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

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 to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

a good reader makes a good book

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.

I like to read and understand.

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.