Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.