Technological fruits such as audiobooks are food for the illusion that we can really do more than one thing at the same time.

Even a book that is made up of only untruths can greatly improve us intellectually.

You can own a billion books and still be ignorant.

A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.

We are improved by reading books not by owning them.

It takes courage to knowingly read a book that is challenging some of your cherished beliefs.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.