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.
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You read too much and understand too little.”
Moiraine Damodred
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Shadow Rising
“Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5
Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).
Source: Home Truths (1859), Ch. II: "Repent, or Perish", p. 73
