My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

I am a part of all I have read.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequaled by any other form of communication.

I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.