It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they are in an abridged edition, and you lose the life of the work. Don't think that art that is alive can remain on the same level of interest throughout — and the same is true of life.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

In imposing order, it’s easy to miss the obvious.

The smarter you get, the slower you read.

If readers discount certain topics as unworthy of their attention, if readers are going to judge a book by its cover or feel excluded from a certain kind of book because the cover is, say, pink, the failure is with the reader, not the writer. To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance,

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

If you look too closely at the form, you'll miss the essence

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Often compound words have drifted so far from their etymological roots that native speakers can easily miss what is right in front of their eyes.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

من لا يريد القراءة ليس بأفضل ممن لا يستطيع القراءة