“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living
“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”
— Ezra Pound, book ABC of Reading
Source: ABC of Reading
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Context: Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”
Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Variant: ... anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.
Source: Saga, Vol. 6
John Wain (1925–1994) British writer
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
