Book Carvings

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

You live several lives while reading. - William Styron

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. - J.D. Salinger

Every man is a volume, if you how to read him. - W. E. Channing

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

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

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. - David Sedaris

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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

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

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

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

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner

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

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

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

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

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

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

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

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich