“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”

“If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.”

“Those The heart should be free from hypocrisy, the heart of man should be perfectly pure. What the heart thinks, the tongue should talk. What one thinks, one must talk. Nobody you should deceive; nobody you should hate. You must not mix with others. Your mind must always be one pointed.”

“Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”

“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“… one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”

“When I start, I have a story that tends to have a lesson to be learnt. A lot of the time my novels are called novels for young adults and I think one of the reasons they are popular with young adults is because they read them and understand it…”