“I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly.”

“i really like reading books”

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”

“I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,’ I feel I have succeeded.”

“I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia”

“I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.”

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

“Some people like to read their bibles in the Hebrew; some like to read it in the Greek; I like to read it in the Holy Spirit”

“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…. For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”