A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
You can't write if you don't read.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
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