“Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!”

“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

“When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.”

“Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.”

“Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if they open it and read it, they don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.”

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”