“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.”

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

“The new readers have mentality, fashions, feelings completely different from those of previous readers. Should I draw comics following my first readers in their growth? Or should I stop doing the cartoonist? … More or less every three years a cartoonist for children is cornered. I, too, every three years, living a crisis. So I decide and I get back to work for my new readers as if they were the first. … This is why I am certain that the good work that will draw able to make happy readers of all time.”

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

“The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.”

“I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.”

“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

“Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women.”

“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”