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Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

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

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

Never read a book that is not a year old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

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

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

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

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

In the book of life, the answers aren't on the back. - Charlie Brown

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

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

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb

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

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

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

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

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

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

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

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

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo

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

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

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

An author in his book must be like God in the universe: present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

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

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocket book groans more loudly than an empty stomach. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Neine

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. - Giorgio Baglivi

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

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

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

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

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

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

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. - Monica Crowley

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C S Lewis

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

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

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

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey