When I can't sleep, I read a
book by Steve Allen.
-- Oscar Levant |
I was going to buy a copy of
The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would
that do?
-- Ronnie Shakes |
I just got out of the
hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.
-- Steven Wright |
I have only ever read one
book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never
bothered to read another.
-- Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, 1949) |
I'm trying to read a book on
how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.
-- Jim Loy |
A bookstore is one of the
only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
-- Jerry Seinfield |
A man's got to take a lot of
punishment to write a really funny book.
-- Ernest Hemingway |
A classic is something that
everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
-- Mark Twain |
Once you've put one of his
books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
-- Mark Twain (talking about Henry James) |
A good novel tells us the
truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton |
