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

“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.”

“Learning is not by going to school, books is not by reading; but knowing what you went their for and understanding what you've read in those books.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

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

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

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

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

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