Library Closed

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Every person is a book, each year a chapter. - Mark Twain

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

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

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

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

No wonder the teacher knows so much - she has the book. - Edgar W Howe

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

Not all the news that's fit to print is fit to read. - Unknown

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. - Oscar Wilde

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin F Tupper

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

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

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

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

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

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

It's not the cost of the book. It's what it may cost you not to buy and read it. - Jim Rohn

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. - Arnold Palmer

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Harold Abelson

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

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

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

Book Review: A brief but informative essay that spares readers the ordeal of digesting an actual book - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Neine

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

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

If you believe you have a foolproof system you have failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. - Frank W. Abagnale

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

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

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

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

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

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

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

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

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 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

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

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

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. - Brene Brown

The family should be a place where each new human being can have an early atmosphere conducive to the development of constructive creativity. - Edith Schaeffer

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper