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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

— Salman Rushdie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

— Kid Rock

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

— Carole Bouquet

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

— Stephen King

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

— Daniel Tammet

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

— Pablo Neruda

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

— Rebecca Ferguson

I don't read books.

— Eric Bristow

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick