Mark Kurlansky Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

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.

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

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

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

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 was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

I seemed to have been born reading.

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

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.