Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

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

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

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

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

Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

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 should be a repeat performance.

I read part of it all the way through.

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

I'm a very slow reader.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

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

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

At Oculus, we're now looking at eye specialists, people who really understand how the human eye works, and how that affects human emotion.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

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 we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

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

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