If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.