It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Egan

Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

What is reading, but silent conversation. - Walter Savage Landor

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

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

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

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. - Michael Ondaatje

People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

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

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

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

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

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

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

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

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

When a book and a head come into contact and one of them sounds hollow, is it always the book? - Arthur Schopenhauer

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read an write, everyone would limp and stutter. - Mark Twain

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

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

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

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

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

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

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. - Iyanla Vanzant

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. - Tennessee Williams