“Learning is not by going to school, books is not by reading; but knowing what you went their for and understanding what you've read in those books.”

“What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?”

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”

“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

“Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.”

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”

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

“It is a general observation that people write as they read. As a rule, careful writers are careful readers and vice versa. A careful writer wants to be read carefully. He cannot know what it means to be read carefully but by having done careful reading himself. Reading precedes writing. We read before we write. We learn to write by reading. A man learns to write well by reading well good books, by reading most carefully books which are most carefully written.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”