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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

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

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen Hawking

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

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

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

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

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck