“Reading him was like reading runes — apparently you had to know the language.”

“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”

“It’s in Latin.”“So? What does it say?”“I don’t read Latin!”“You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”

“You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)”

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could one tell her that books are like having a bath or sleeping, or eating bread - absolute necessities which one never thinks of in terms of appreciation. And we all sat waiting for her to say that she had so little time for reading, before ruling her right out for ever and ever.”