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Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

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

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

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

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

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

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

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. - J.D. Salinger

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

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Not all the news that's fit to print is fit to read. - Unknown

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

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich

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

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

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

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

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

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

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

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

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

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. - Tom Hanks

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

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

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

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

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

I've probably wasted a solid year of my life just staring into the fridge. - Bill Murray

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

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

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

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

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

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool. - Kesha

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

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

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

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at eighteen and at forty-eight. - Ezra Pound

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

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

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

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. - Julie Kagawa

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

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

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

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

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

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

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

In this age of microblogging and two-second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. - Tim Frick

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow