Reading Retention Quotes

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

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

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

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

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

I've just always been a reader.

While a lot of management development books try to teach you a lesson or give you a scenario of what corporate culture and work practices are about, they're theoretical and written in a sermonizing way. Most people don't get past the first chapter, and they just look nice on the bookshelf.