It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

You live several lives while reading. - William Styron

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. - Cecil B. DeMille

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

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

Book Ends: The part of a book many girls read first - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

Book (Best Seller): The gilded tomb of a mediocre talent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

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

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. - James D Finley

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. - Northrop Frye

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde

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

An author in his book must be like God in the universe: present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' - Steven Wright

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

Book: A depository of knowledge which a student will try to stay awake long enough to read the night before finals - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

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

I tell ya, I get no respect from anyone. I bought a cemetery plot. The guy said, "There goes the neighbourhood!" - Rodney Dangerfield

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

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