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

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”

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

“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.”

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

“I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.”

“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”

“Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.”

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”