Reading

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

My deep religiosity […] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.

Thus I came…to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true….Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience…an attitude which has never left me.