“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”

“I don't know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care about the book the other one was reading, because it was not the book we were reading, and we became bored and drifted off when the other one talked about his book. What we were doing, reading different books, was furnishing different rooms, constructing separate worlds almost, in which we could sit and be ourselves again. Of course those were rooms in which we each sat alone, and we gradually spent more and more time in them and less and less in the house we lived in together.”

“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.”

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .”

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

“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.”