“I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. ”
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!”
“With a pen in my hand I am fearless.”
“I can always live by my pen.”
“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”