Book Carvings

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell

When I want to read a book, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. - Emily Dickinson

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

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

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

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

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

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C S Lewis

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

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. - Laura Bush

You can never get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. - Malcolm Muggeridge

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody

The summer movies are coming out! My advice: just stay home and burn a good book. - Stephen Colbert

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

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

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

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. - Robert Louis Stevenson

All the days ordained for me
Were written in your book
Before one of them came to be. - Psalms 139:16

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. - John Grisham

The rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story. - Andy McNab

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. - Julie Kagawa

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. - Arnold Bennett

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

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen

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

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Soren Kierkegaard

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