“I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”
“Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.”
“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.”
“There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.”
“That’s why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.”
“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”