“A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses. ”
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
“Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.”
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
“The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.”