'You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.'
‘Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.’
'If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.'
'The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.'
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'
'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.'
'Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
'The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.'