It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
To read too many books is harmful.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.
I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
