“Read to believe”

“It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.”

“It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.”

“You were gullible," he said. And then, "When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't eat them. But then I told you that if you ate carrots, you'd get X-ray vision. And you believed me. You believed everything I said." I did. I really did. I believed him when he said that carrots could give me X-ray vision. I believed him when he told me that he'd never cared about me. And then, later that night, when he tried to take it back, I guess I believed him again. Now I didn't know what to believe. I just knew I didn't believe in him anymore.”

“Read to your heart’s content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.”

“You expect us to believe the damnedest things.”

“No " Grandlibby replied. "Hail comes from hell. The devil sent it because he's happy that you're reading evil garbage.”