“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”

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

“This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.”

“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

“Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. […] If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”

“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.”

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”