“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”
“You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.”
“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”