Quotes on Speed Reading

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

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

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.