“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”

“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”

“It was the kind of library
he had only read about in books.”

““What was all that about?”
“It’s an occupational hazard… You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.””

“History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.”

“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-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.”

“The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen something, or done something, which they really wanted and needed to tell to other people. They told it.”

“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.”