Book Carvings

Beware 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