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Schedule your reading time

If you want to read more books, schedule your reading time like you’d schedule a meeting or a coffee date with friends. Waiting for whenever you’re in the mood to read just doesn’t work. Sometimes you just have to start to get in the mood.

You may love books, but that doesn’t mean cracking open a new novel is easy. You might be tired or intimidated by a thick book.

But you’ll get more reading done if you dedicate a set time every day to reading.

An average adult can read up to 300 words per minute. So if you read for a half hour a day, you’ll get through a mid-sized book in a week. If you make reading a habit, you’ll realise how quickly you’re able to get through books – and that will inspire you to read more.

Scheduling in your reading means you’ll have to sacrifice other things – like TV or social media. Because you can’t really do everything. So ask yourself – what are your priorities?

If an hour a day isn’t realistic, then read for a half hour. It doesn’t matter if you read in the morning or at night. What matters is building a habit.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.