[carlosyasu91]

I've found that most of the Einstein quotes I've seen online don't have a valid source, where did you find that one? Just as a heads up, since Walter Isaacson never mentioned anything similar to that on his biography of him.

[Torien]

'He loves quiet chats over his own dinner table with such friends as Gerhart Hauptmann and Professor Schrodinger. He reads only little. Modern fiction does not seduce him. Even in science he limits himself largely to his special field. "Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from it's creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life." In his own field of thought Einstein follows every development with keen interest. He has the gift of reading at a glance a whole page of equations. Einstein can master a whole new system of mathematics in half an hour.'

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sateve...

Not really the total repudiation of reading that this quote is being implied to be

[carlosyasu91]

Yea, there's more to the context of why he said that, thanks for sharing!