Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book.

If you are someone who reads books to feel like you have a friend on the page, my book is not going to be the book for you…I write for people who are readers the way I'm a reader. I don't care if I dislike a character; I care if I find them interesting or they make me laugh, or if I'm trying to figure them out. I am always more interested in that.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

[This story] would seem to be for children, but I'm not fussy who reads it.

Our primary concern is not to be style icons ourselves.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Reading a book isn't a race - the better the book, the slower it should be absorbed.

Reading a book isn’t a race — the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.

To Potential Readers: This is a book just like any other book. But I would be happy if it were read only by people whose outlook is fully formed. People who know that an approach-to anything whatsoever-must be carried out gradually and laboriously, that it must traverse even the very opposite of what is being approached. They and they alone will, slowly, come to understand that this book exacts nothing of anyone. Over time, the character G. H. came to give me, for example, a very difficult pleasure; but it is called pleasure.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.