Franklin P. Jones Quotes

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

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.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

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.

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

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

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm a slow reader.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

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

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

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

I've tried to slow this down but realized that my natural reading rhythm is freakishly fast when an author friend asked me to go through the manuscript of her soon-to-be-published book for continuity errors.

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

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.

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

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.

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.

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.