When a new book is published, read an old one.
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
When a new book appears one should read an old one.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
