
“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
Attributed to Allen by Herb Caen in Reader's Digest, October 1967. For additional citations see this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/speed-reading/.
“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”
Taxed Beyond Belief (2002)
As I myself read.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e
That afternoon he'd bought Bird the largest bag of lemon drops he could find.
"He gives her candy," she had said, remembering too.
Source: Water Street (2006), Epilogue, p. 164 (closing words); reference to quote from Chapter 11
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Context: I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.