Book Carvings

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

What is reading, but silent conversation. - Walter Savage Landor

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Unknown

Every man is a volume, if you how to read him. - W. E. Channing

A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy. - Groucho Marx

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

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

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

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

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

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

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

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

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

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

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

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

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

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 am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. - Flannery O'Connor

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

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

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

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

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

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

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." - Unknown

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. - Barbara Ehrenreich

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