“Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.”

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

“To get even one person to read an expressed thought of his is a good start for an author.”

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).”

“Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

“Every author has several motivations for writing, and authors of technical books always have, as one motivation, the personal need to understand; that is, they write because they want to learn, or to understand a phenomenon, or to think through a set of ideas.”

“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”