"Somebody should write a book ... on the Enthusiasm of Modern Style."
—The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Jan. 1830. p. 99.

"Some one ought to write a book on how to climb out of mediocrity and Be Somebody!"
—William Dudley Pelley, The Fog, 1921, p. 320.

"There ought to be a book.  'A Guide for the Occasional Parent' — how to pack seven years into two days."
—Rene Kuhn, Cornelia, 1948, p. 97.

"Someone ought to write a book on spiritual case work."
—Proceedings of the Annual Congress of Correction of the American Prison Association, Oct. 1922, p. 223.

"Someone ought to write a book on what happened in 1977, how you can make that big of decision and keep it a secret."
—United States Senate Committee on Finance, Nominations of Alicia Munnell, Michael Levy, Jeffrey Shafer, Margaret Milner, p. 17.

"Someone ought to write a book on the influence of that tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
—William Bennett Munro, Personality in Politics, 1924, p. 117.

"There should be a book called 'Men Have Cabinets, Women Have Shelves.'  That's how I would wrap up my general view on boyfriend relationships."
—Tina Basich, Pretty Good for a Girl, 2003, p. 160.

"There ought to be a book in which those who take delight in the higher branches of literature may meet and discourse to one another technically."
—The Living Age, vol. 3, 1844, p. 468.

"Somebody should write a book upon the management of not small gardens merely, but Bits of Garden.  Millions of people obtain garden ground only by the morsel, and would like to make out of that morsel an occasion of rejoicing to the eye."
—Charles Dickens, All the Year Round, Dec. 17, 1859, p. 174.

"How to deal discreetly with death: someone ought to write a book."
—Robley Wilson, The Victim's Daughter, 1991, p. 105.

"Somebody should write a book about all the different lovers who have walked along Sunnyside Beach at midnight."
—David Donnell, Water Street Days, 1989, p. 32.

"Some one ought to write a book entitled The Anonymous in Life, though it would assuredly take many volumes to tell the story of the wonders wrought by unknown, unnamed pilgrims of the past."
—Joseph Fort Newton, Short Talks on Masonry, 1928, p. 142.

"Somebody ought to write a book on the Lost Arts in America."
—Wallace Nutting, New Hampshire Beautiful, 1937, p. 159.

"Someone ought to write a book someday on the tasks restless women have invented to occupy their time."
—Emily Newell Blair, Bridging Two Eras, 1999, p. 96.