“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

“My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.”

“She read everything.”

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”

“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”

“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”