Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
E.M. Forster
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
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