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