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.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

من لا يريد القراءة ليس بأفضل ممن لا يستطيع القراءة

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

The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Those who do not read, are no better off than those who cannot read.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

People who don't read are brutes.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.

. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' — owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising.