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
Email to a friend I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident.
I hit a bookmark.
-- Steven Wright
Email to a friend 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)
Email to a friend I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling
asleep.
-- Jim Loy
Email to a friend A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that
people are still thinking.
-- Jerry Seinfield
Email to a friend A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny
book.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Email to a friend A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.
-- Mark Twain
Email to a friend Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it
up again.
-- Mark Twain (talking about Henry James)
Email to a friend 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
Email to a friend There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best
parts.
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