“I hope the amazed reader will be patient for a while—in order simply to read.”

“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”

“In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.”

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.”

“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”