I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.

I was reading.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me

why are you reading

I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. I read on buses, trains, and plains. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

I'm not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.