Stealth Readers

Your library is your Paradise. - Erasmus

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. - Emily Dickinson

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. - Cormac McCarthy

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. - Billy Horschel

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. - Groucho Marx

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. - Northrop Frye

Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin be the rolling stone." - Archie Bunker

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. - Flannery O'Connor

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. - Giorgio Baglivi

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. - Ron Santo

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. - Monica Crowley

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

"Truth tellers" are often called Dividers. But truth doesn't divide, it polarizes. It reveals hidden divisions that already exist. - Unknown