“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.”

“Books don’t have a nutritional value. Which is to say, we don’t just read "good" books because they’re good for us. We read to expand our horizons, to understand and connect with something outside ourselves, good and bad. We read to challenge ourselves…”

“It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.”

“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”

“Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.”

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”