“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
“I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?”
“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you”
“Who wants a library full of books you've already read?”
“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”