The book you don't read can't help.

من لا يريد القراءة ليس بأفضل ممن لا يستطيع القراءة

There is very little difference between someone who cannot read and someone who will not read. The result of either is ignorance. Those who are serious seekers of personal development must remove the self-imposed limitations they have placed on their reading skills and their reading habits.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

The art of <i>not</i> reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

I would rather he never learnt to read at all, than that this art should be acquired at the price of all that makes reading useful. What is the use of reading to him if he always hates it?

Someone who hasn't read a novel doesn't really know what it's about, William.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. — MARK TWAIN

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

There are those who will laugh at those who read useful books, and yet there is little difference between those who cannot read and those who will not read — the result of both is ignorance.