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

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

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide king. ~Elizabeth Hardwick

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way, because the experience of reading is not passive. ~Erica Jong

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

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~Ray Bradbury

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ~Fran Lebowitz

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

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