I wish I cared about reading, but I don't.

I like people to tell me stories, but nobody has more than a few, and you get to know them all off by heart.

The books always say such a lot between the happening parts, and if you skip too much you lose part of the story.

The story people all sit down and fold their hands, and wait till the close thick pages of prosy prosy are over, and when they get up again and go on they have forgotten their parts.

Pappy says I shall like reading when I'm older; but I'm not older, and I don't like it.