Reading: one of life's bare essentials

Nick Steele by Tony Duran

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

~ Francois Mauriac

"Classic"--a book which people praise but don't read.

~ Mark Twain

The covers of this book are too far apart.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a reprint.

~ Mark Twain

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It involves Russia.

~ Woody Allen

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

~ President George W. Bush

Yiannis

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

~ Groucho Marx

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

~ Paulo Coelho

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are unprankable. They'll track you down. They have skills!

~ Charles Ogden

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

~ John Green, Paper Towns

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The Library, and step on it!"

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

Josh Lanyon, The Dickens With Love

 

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em.

~ John Waters

Photo by M Marshall Studios

Sections in the Bookstore

By Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

• Books You Haven't Read
• Books You Needn't Read
• Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
• Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
• Books That If You had More Time Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
• Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
• Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
• Books--Ditto--When They Come Out in Paperback
• Books You Can Borrow From Somebody
• Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
• Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
• Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
• Books Dealing With Something You're Working on at the Moment
• Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
• Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
• Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
• Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity. Not Easily Justified
• Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Reread
• Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them

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