Book Carvings

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Book lovers never go to bed alone. - Unknown

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffet

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Unknown

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing

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

In the book of life, the answers aren't on the back. - Charlie Brown

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

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

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. - Nicholas Meyer

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

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

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. - Unknown

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. - Dorothy Parker

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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 would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen. - Archie Bunker

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

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

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

Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking and do something no one else is doing. - Bob McLaren

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

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 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

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. - Barbara Ehrenreich

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater