Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

What is reading, but silent conversation. - Walter Savage Landor

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

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

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

In this age of microblogging and two-second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. - Tim Frick

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King