“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
“If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?”
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests.”
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”