It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

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

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

The main purpose of love is to provide a theme for novels. - Piers Paul Read

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

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

Show me where Stalin is born, and I'll show you a communist plot. - George S. Kaufman

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

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

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

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

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

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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

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

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

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

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. - Charles Mingus

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

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

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

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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