“An array of puns, asides and (sometimes off-key) jokes makes the book more bulky and somewhat anecdotal, but also entertaining to read.”

“The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.”

“In this background, it would be an unremitting task both in volume and repetition to give all anecdotes, facts and figures of enslavement and concubinage of captive women in the central and provincial kingdoms and independent Muslim states found mentioned in the chronicles. This would only lead to repetition resulting in the book becoming bulky.”

“Reading ideas improves,
reading stories entertains,
reading the news informs,
reading books teaches,
reading the song rhymes”

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.”

“A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”

“It (reading) not only opens up one’s mind to a wider array of things as well, but is also a welcome relief from the monotony of the mundane world.”

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

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

“Books give not wisdom where was none before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”