“The flesh is sorrowful, alas! And I've read all the books.”

“I read there [in "certain books of the Platonists"] that God the Word was born "not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh, but of God." But, that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us"”

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”

“skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.”

“Why should I wait until tomorrow?
I've already been
I've already seen
All the sorrow that's in store”

“I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book… I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.”

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

“I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.”

“I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.”