Read what writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau and Stephen King have to say about reading.
Here are three short quotes:
Marcel Proust : “… The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.”
Franz Kafka : “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? …” (Bet you didn’t see that one coming.)
Gustave Flaubert : “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”