Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.