It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
