“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”