Arnold Bennett Quotes:
Ocupation: Film writer
Life: May 27, 1867 - March 27, 1931
Birthday: May 27
Death: March 27
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.
source: Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd
topic: Book, Reading, Cutting, Motor Cars, Shire, Better Man, Bread And Butter
