Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho Marx

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma Bombeck

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch Hedberg

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn

Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie