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

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

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

“What's your favorite book?
"The last one I read.”