Think before you speak. Read before you think.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.