Chip Kidd Quotes

I'm a slow reader.

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

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 quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

I read three books a week.

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

I seemed to have been born reading.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

I'm a lousy reader.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

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

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Reading should be a repeat performance.