“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”

“Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”

“You can tell I don't like this book, because I drew in it. And that's better than anything else that's in this book.”

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”

“I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.”

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you. ”