A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always advised men to read.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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.
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
Man is what he reads.