Book Carvings

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

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

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

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it. - Anderson Cooper

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

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

My problem with reading books is that I get distracted. By other books. - Unknown

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

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green

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

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre

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

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

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

When a book and a head come into contact and one of them sounds hollow, is it always the book? - Arthur Schopenhauer

Yearbook: A book containing student pictures that will keep getting nerdier as the years go by - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

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

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

Accountant: 1. A noble insect; 2. A dutiful book balancer whose role within a corporation is to protect it from creative ideas. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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 you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein