Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev

I’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.

Easy writing makes hard reading.