“Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.”
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.”
“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”
“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
“Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one.”