I haven't got time to read books.'<br /><br />'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you doing?'<br /><br />'Lots of things: studying French, writing a diary, and ...'<br /><br />'And what?'<br /><br />She was about to say 'waiting for the phone to ring', but she thought it best to say nothing.<br /><br />'My dear, you're still very young, you've got your whole life ahead of you. Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and just read.'<br /><br />'I've read loads of books.