“Never apologize for your reading tastes.”
“Rosenberg's First Law of Reading: never apologize for your reading tastes.”
“Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.”
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”
“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. ”