“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft."A Reader on Reading p. 281”
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.”
“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”
“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”