“Anyone can easily read good books, but only wellprepared or mentally fit individuals will benefit.”

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

“There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.”

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”

“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).”

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

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”