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A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Egan

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We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end. - Peter De Vries

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

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

Life is a storybook, and those who do not travel only read but a page. - Ravi Zacharias

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - C S Lewis

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

The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

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

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

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

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

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. - Flannery O'Connor

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

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

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

The best thing in the famous novels at present is that one does not need to read them; one knows them already. - Henry David Thoreau

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

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 met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis