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Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. - Daniel Webster

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac. - Archie Bunker

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

No wonder the teacher knows so much - she has the book. - Edgar W Howe

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

Arpeggio: The story book kid with the big nose that grows - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Thinnest Book in the World: 'What Men Know About Women' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. - Billy Horschel

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

The person who won't read has no advantage over the person who can't. - Clifford Warren

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

Book Censor: A person who reads so much he gets asterisks in front of his eyes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. - Karen Russell

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. - Billy Graham

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

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

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

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

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

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

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

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

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

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

The best thing in the famous novels at present is that one does not need to read them; one knows them already. - Henry David Thoreau

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess, and you have to use geometry like billiards. - Bill McBride

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

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

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

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot