“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”

“Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.”

“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”

“Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.”

“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”

“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would be an hour stolen from life.”