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How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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

If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet… Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

Reading is important.

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.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.