All Books Considered

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

We read to know we are not alone. ~ C.S. Lewis

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~ P.J. O’Rourke

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. ~ Terry Pratchett

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ~ Angela Carter

Good children’s literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. ~ Anonymous

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ~ Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet 

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. ~ Joe Ryan

A good book has no ending. ~ R.D. Cumming

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