It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn

In the end, we'll all become stories. - Margaret Atwood

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

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

Everything comes to him who waits. Except a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

The main purpose of love is to provide a theme for novels. - Piers Paul Read

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

Show me where Stalin is born, and I'll show you a communist plot. - George S. Kaufman

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. - Aneurin Bevan

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

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

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

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E M Forster

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

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

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

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

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

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

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

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

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

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

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

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King

I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book and a bubble bath, I'm a happy girl. - Shiloh Walker