“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.”

“You can only learn so much by reading. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book.”

“If many great books seem unreadable and unintelligible … it may be because we have not for a long time learned to read by reading them. Great books teach people not only how to read them, but how to read all other books.”

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

“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.”

“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's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

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

“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.”