Book Carvings

Book Of Ecclesiasticles - Archie Bunker

Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell

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

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

Preface: That part of a book which is never read. - Unknown

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

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

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

Everything comes to him who waits. Except a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

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

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

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

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

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

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

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

I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book and a bubble bath, I'm a happy girl. - Shiloh Walker

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