He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust, " he said." It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, " he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading a book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. Haruki Murakami
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The quote "He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. 'That's the only kind of book I can trust,' he said" is an interesting one. It's an example of how selective the man was about what he read. He read books that he thought had not been written yet. He didn't read for pleasure, but rather for knowledge.

Source: Norwegian Wood

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