“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.”

“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”

“If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.”

“My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.”

“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”

“I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”