“To encounter a fine bookand have time to read itis a wonderful thing.”

“It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”

“And you will suck the life out of meBury itI won't let you bury itI won't let you smother itI won't let you murder itAnd our time is running outAnd our time is running outYou can't push it undergroundYou can't stop it screaming outHow did it come to this?”

“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”

“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.”

“The most durable thing in writing isstyle. It is a projection of personality and you haveto have a personality before you can project it. Itis the product of emotion and perception.”