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If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

I don’t read books.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

It’s the writer’s duty to write, but it’s also the reader’s duty to read.

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

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

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

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.