“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”

“I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.”

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

“My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another book, then I read Heidi again. If I stopped reading Heidi in between the other books, I'd be able to read twice as many books, but the thing is I like reading Heidi. So I do.”

“I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”

“i loved the freedom writers diary and even though i only read it because my teacher made us i loved the book. it shows me some feelings that i also feel sometimes, and even though i never finished reading it because i got lazy its the only book ive ever liked”