There is too little courtship in the world.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men than Jacob Rees-Mogg's last birthday party.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.