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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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