“The book wasn’t half bad. But only because I only read half of it.”
“I will read and read and read until I go blind! I'm only half way there.”
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. ”
“You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.”