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

“The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.”

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

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

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”

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

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”

“I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.”

“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.”