“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.”
“The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.”
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
“If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.”
“Reading a book is something you do to yourself.”
“When I was growing up, no one could get away with telling me I couldn't do something "because you're a girl." In fact, if someone wanted me not to do something, that was the worst thing they could say: It practically guaranteed I'd run out and try to do it.”