“If you can, and if you are a playgoer and a filmgoer, you should be able to find voices for all the characters in the books you read.”

“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”

“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.”

“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”

“Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.”

“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.”

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”

“You can only learn so much by reading. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book.”