“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

“I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.”

“Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.”

“I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them”

“People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.”

“You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.”

“How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.”