Matt Hancock Quotes

Even to this day, I read things in real time, you know, I don't - like, as if it's being spoken. I can't skim stuff in ways that I know certain people can. I have to sort of hear it in my head to be able to read it.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm a slow reader.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

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

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

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

Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!

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.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.