“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership …”

“It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way.”

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

“When I was a boy, the bestselling books were often the books that were on your piano teacher's shelf. I mean, Steinbeck, Hemingway, some Faulkner. Faulkner actually had, considering how hard he is to read and how drastic the experiments are, quite a middle-class readership. But certainly someone like Steinbeck was a bestseller as well as a Nobel Prize-winning author of high intent. You don't feel that now. I don't feel that we have the merger of serious and pop — it's gone, dissolving. Tastes have coarsened. People read less, they're less comfortable with the written word.”

“I read part of it all the way through.”

“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”

“Even with the loss of Puerto Argentino and without internationalizing the conflict, we should have continued the action in such a way that the enemy would have been faced by serious, permanent and systematic difficulties and risks and be obliged to realize that we Argentines were not going to surrender.”

“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”

“Reading is the best way to live in somebody else's shoes.”