Modern Printing Press

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

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

Every person is a book, each year a chapter. - Mark Twain

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

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

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

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. - Russell Lynes

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

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp. - Tom Clancy

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E M Forster

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead? - George Carlin

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

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

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

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

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

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

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

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

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

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. - Mark Twain

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

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

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

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

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

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater