“I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.”

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

“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.”

“You served here how long, Cornelius?’
‘Long enough to learn about what they believe. Not long enough to learn to speak their language well enough to get their confidence. Not long enough to learn how to read their books. Now I’ve three years before retirement and a measure of spare time for getting down to it.’
‘This, you know,’ Marcellus said, ‘is all wrong. You’re not here to get their confidence or read their books. They’re a colonized people. We’re here to give orders.
‘They’d rather die than obey some of the Roman orders. Besides, it’s laid down that their religion is inviolate…”

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”

“i really like reading books”

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”