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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

I just have never got into reading.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.