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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.