"If one cannot enjoy reading a book..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”

“And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

“Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.”

“She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

“Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.”

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”

“Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.”