“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”
“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”
“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
“The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.”
“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.”
“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”