“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

“Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.”

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”

“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”

“Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!”