“As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know."”

“You read the face of the sky and of the earth, but you have not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read this moment.”

“That individual who reads useful books is no longer on the same plane of thinking as those who neglected them.”

“People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.”

“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it
are no longer the same interpreters.”

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

“The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.”

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”