Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich

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

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

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

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

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. - John Barrymore

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

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

Many people's tombstones should read: 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' - Nicholas M Butler

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. - Karen Russell

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

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

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

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

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

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

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

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

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking and do something no one else is doing. - Bob McLaren

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

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 took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. - Steven Wright

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot