QuotaBillsBeware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell
I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger
The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. - Michael Ondaatje
When you read the riot act, be prepared to enforce it. - Saying
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. - Emily Dickinson
People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln
Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker
It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand
Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is my custom to call this book 'An Anatomy of All the Parts of the Soul.' - John Calvin
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. - Dorothy Parker
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Harold Abelson
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln
I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. - Mark Twain
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan
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 met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal
Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead
Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. - Iyanla Vanzant
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." - Unknown
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
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson