Stephen King Quotes

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

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

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.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

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

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

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.

I'm a very slow reader.

Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.

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

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

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

I'm a slow reader.

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.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

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

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

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

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

a good reader makes a good book

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