“I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.”
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.”
“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.”
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.”
“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”
“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”