Captive Audience Twins

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Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

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

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

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison

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

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

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

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. - Oscar Wilde

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

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

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

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

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

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's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

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

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis

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