“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

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American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist

Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)

“To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less… selfish.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

“Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,—
Sighed to think I read a book,
Only read, perhaps, by me.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

To the Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”

Tom Perrotta (1961) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Joe College

“The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

“I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.”

Pete McCarthy (1951–2004) British travel writer

Source: McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239763 "10 Brilliant Quotes From Warren Buffett, America's Second-Richest Person " entrepreneur.com (13 November 2014)
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“Less smoking and more reading.”

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain

23rd April 2005.
As President, 2005

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Read me, read me. Love me, love.”

Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer

Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)

“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

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