The Starting Point Is A Question.

One Can Transform A Place By Reading In It.

The Listeners Who Buy Books After A Reading Multiply That Reading; The Author Who Realizes That He Or She May Be Writing On A Blank Page But Is At Least Not Speaking To A Blank Wall May Be Encouraged By The Experience, And Write More.

The Association Of Books With Their Readers Is Unlike Any Other Between Objects And Their Users.

Readers Are Bullied In Schoolyards And In Locker-rooms As Much As In Government Offices And Prisons.

If The Book Is Second-hand, I Leave All Its Markings Intact, The Spoor Of Previous Readers, Fellow-travellers Who Have Recorded Their Passage By Means Of Scribbled Comments, A Name On The Fly-leaf, A Bus Ticket To Mark A Certain Page.