John le Carre Quotes

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

I'm a very slow reader.

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

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

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

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

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.

I'm a slow reader.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

I read three books a week.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

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.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

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.

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

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

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

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