“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.”

“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.”

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

“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation. It's heart-breaking how often I have to say when I'm giving talks, "This book is out of print. This book is out of print."”

“I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another.
--Mallory Pike”

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…”

“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”