"If somebody should like to write a book, but is like millions of persons who would like to write books, but fortunately don't know just what to write books about, I suggest a study of scares, with the idea of showing that they were not altogether hysteria and mass psychology, and that there may have been something to be scared about."
—Charles Fort, Wild Talents (1932)

"There ought to be a book of the laws and customs a-la-mode, presented to all young people upon their first introduction into public company."
—Fanny Burney, Evelina, 1904, p. 81.

"Someone needs to write a book on what constitutes hatred toward others."
—Eric Penn, Children of Chaotics, 1995, p. 134.

Someone should write a book about the "little territorial struggles over semantics between retailer and consumer." —Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

"Somebody should write a book on how to walk and not dislocate joints."
—The Western Druggist, Vol. X, 1888, p. 182.

"There is need that somebody should write a book for grown folks entitled 'How They Are Making a Baby of Him.'"
—Sunday Afternoon, Vol. 3, 1879, p. 283.

"Somebody ought to write a book tracing in detail the workings of an aristocratic landowning tradition in present-day English social life."
—John Boynton Priestley, The World of J. B. Priestly, 1967, p. 188.

"There should be a book about the river, about the grasses and weeds, the flowers of the banks."
—The Fiddlehead, 1945, p. 117.

"Someone ought to write a book called Your Mission Is Too Small or Your Church Is Too Small."
—Robert Bacher & Michael Cooper-White, Church Administration, 2007, p. 229.

"There are beautiful almshouses all over England, and someone ought to write a book describing them."
—E. V. Lucas, London Lavender, 1912, p. 236.

"Somebody ought to write a book and call it Saints Inveterate."
—Francis Lynde, The Quickening, 1906, p. 389.

"Someone should write a book on Kant's ethics good enough that it will be required reading."
—Christine M. Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, 1996, p. 287.

"There ought to be a book to settle arguments about records in pubs."
—Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1929, p. 282.

"There ought to be a book which gives an account of God as involved in human experience, privately and publicly, without any religious import or even overtones."
—Paul Weiss, Philosophy in Process, 1955, p. 76.

"There should be a Book of Waiters, as there was a Book of Doctors and a Book of Lawyers."
—Edward Verrall Lucas, Adventures and Enthusiasms, 1920, p. 159.

"There should be a book titled 'How News Is Made,' a book that could be for journalism what 'The Jungle' was to the meatpacking industry."
—Dale Dougherty, "How News is Made," boingboing.net, Nov 29, 2005.

"There ought to be a book to inform people about seashore life."
—Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings, 2000, p. 49.

"Someone ought to write a Book of Etiquette for Scientific Institutes which would enumerate the do's and don'ts for such occasions."
—Institute of Vitreous Enamellers, Metal Finishing Journal, 1966, p. 194.

"Someone ought to write a book about the psychology of the circus and its audiences."
—August Heinrich Kober, Circus Nights and Circus Days, 1931, p. 231.

"Some one ought to write a book on the Strength of the Weaklings."
—Leighton Parts, qtd. in The American Church Monthly, Vol. 8, 1920, p. 250.